Issue 67842 - Auto Correct suggest today's date when started
Summary: Auto Correct suggest today's date when started
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0.3
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial with 1 vote (vote)
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Reported: 2006-07-27 16:47 UTC by immanuelcrc
Modified: 2014-04-09 19:57 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
Latest Confirmation in: 4.1.0-dev
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Description immanuelcrc 2006-07-27 16:47:18 UTC 
One nice feature that Word has for autocompletion / autocorrect is that when I
start typing the current date, first it will offer to autocomplete the month,
which OOo does as well, and then Word will offer to autocomplete with today's
date. I find this very handy.

An interesting note, for Word 2000, the date it suggests is the date of when you
opened Word. So, if the process is still running from yesterday, it will suggest
yesterday's date. 

I think OOo, if they implement this, should not implement the bug of Word, but
take the current date, probably using the proper locale, etc.
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2006-07-28 07:03:11 UTC 
Reassigned to SBA.
Comment 2 stefan.baltzer 2006-10-11 12:20:07 UTC 
SBA: Reassigned to requirements.
Comment 3 stefan.baltzer 2006-10-27 10:55:55 UTC 
SBA: Reassigned
Comment 4 snieroda2011 2013-09-25 00:20:53 UTC 
First I want to confirm that this feature is not yet available in my version of OpenOffice:  AOO400m3(Build:9702)  -  Rev. 1503704. This is using a 64-bit version of Windows 8.

To be sure, I tried multiple formats of dates, none of which auto-completed.
September 24, 2013
9/24/2013
09/24/2013
24 September, 2013
24/09/2013
24/9/2013

I did notice that auto completion on the month name functions properly, and works similar to MS Words date completion. Typing "Sep" shows the word Septembers, and completes by pressing the enter key. MS Word autocompletes the word September as well using "Sept", but pressing space after entering the word is what causes the auto-completion of the entire date.

I agree that this would be a useful feature to add and would be consistent with a competitor product (MS Word).
Comment 5 Cem Kaner 2013-09-27 15:41:13 UTC 
I just did a search on "date autocomplete". All of the messages on Bing seem to be about how to turn it off. I did a search on autocomplete in WordPerfect (which I haven't used) and nothing came up, suggesting that it doesn't have the feature. I don't recall seeing this in Pages.

I know that many people like autocomplete, but I wonder whether this feature would be more liked or more disliked.
Comment 6 Edwin Sharp 2014-04-09 19:57:18 UTC 
Confirmed with
AOO410m15(Build:9761)  -  Rev. 1585426
2014-04-01 13:50 - Linux x86_64
Debian