FIGURE 9.3 A typical document window in OpenOffice.org. Note the Stylist on the right.
Use the Stylist to set up paragraphs (the most often used styles), characters (such as a
book title), pages, and whole documents. If you have a certain way you want your styles
to look, you can edit the properties of existing styles or create new styles of your own.
One default setting in OOo that takes more than a little getting used to (if you don??™t put
it to pasture early) is autocompletion mode. As you type, you will suddenly find greenhighlighted
letters on the screen. Press Enter to accept Writer??™s suggestion or keep typing
or hit the space bar to make it go away. Lazy typists may love this as much as autocompletion
in their favorite shell, but Writer is frequently wrong in its guesses, and that can
make for complications or embarrassing typos.
You can make it work for you, but if it??™s just too maddening, turning autocompletion off
is fairly simple: Go to Tools, AutoCorrect. Click the Word Completion tab and uncheck
Enable Word Completion. You can make other tweaks in this dialog box, too.
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