Issue 97611 - Disambiguate AutoText and AutoCorrect Word Completion
Summary: Disambiguate AutoText and AutoCorrect Word Completion
Status: UNCONFIRMED
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Product: ui
Classification: Code
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOO300m9
Hardware: PC Windows Vista
: P4 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: AOO PleaseHelp
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Reported: 2008-12-28 10:03 UTC by T. J. Frazier
Modified: 2013-02-07 22:32 UTC (History)
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Description T. J. Frazier 2008-12-28 10:03:57 UTC
(This is a follow-up to closed/Invalid Issue 95582.)

You are typing along, and a little yellow box with black letters pops up, with a
suggestion. Problem - do you:

(a) recognize an Edit > AutoText offering, and press F3;

(b) recognize a Tools > AutoCorrect > Word Completion entry, and press whatever
response-key you've chosen (F3 is not among the available choices);

(c) recognize an ambiguity, and file an RFE.

Having one stimulus with two different responses is a violation of learning
principles, and hence of good UI design, so this does need fixing.

The following suggestions range from "easy" to "a lot of work". I would be happy
with any of them, but I recommend all, in the long run.

1) Arbitrarily change box background color for either one. (This is probably a
one-line fix.)

2) Go a little further, and add both to the Tools > Options > OO.o > Appearance
color-selection dialog. (Probably easy. Note: accessibility credits for doing
this, for color-blind users.)

3) Add key F3 to the user-selectable options for accepting Word Completion.

4) Put both AutoText and AutoCorrect on the same menu. Possible choices include
Tools, Edit, and Insert, but this is less important than having them together.

5) Move the whole Word Completion feature out of AutoCorrect and into AutoText,
where it is a better conceptual fit. (Probably a lot of work.)
Comment 1 eric.savary 2009-01-11 23:59:11 UTC
Reassigned