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title="NEW - Word completion: Add ability to save word completion (aka "auto complete") lists and re-use them"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86872#c10">Comment # 10</a>
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title="NEW - Word completion: Add ability to save word completion (aka "auto complete") lists and re-use them"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86872">bug 86872</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:david.c.littman@gmail.com" title="david.c.littman@gmail.com">david.c.littman@gmail.com</a>
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<pre>This enhancement request has not had a comment for a long time so I'd like to
raise/vote for it again because I believe it would be a very significant
addition to the user experience with LO and, therefore, to its prospects for
wider adoption especially by people using Word now that W10 apparently has some
global autocomplete features.
It would be a tremendous help if new words were added to a global autocomplete
list rather than added only to per-document lists.
I just finished writing a book (Democratic Party Renaissance - Rank and File
Action Manifesto) and at some point will probably do a 2nd ed and perhaps a
follow up volume that addresses some of the topics in depth.
In producing the text I typed hundreds of "new" words (people, places, parties,
laws, etc.) and if I do the 2nd ed or a follow up volume I would obviously like
those words in my autocomplete list.
I have worked at a professional level as an experimental psychologist, a
computer scientist, and other fields in which there are hundreds if not
thousands of lexical items one uses every day. Not to be able to, for example,
write a second paper on the same topic as 6 months ago and use the same
autocomplete list is, to put it mildly, frustrating as all get out.
There are a few hacks. The one I created was: Make and prepopulate a word list
document with just all your words, open it whenever you're writing a new
document, create the new document, save the new document and the word list
document frequently, and it kind of works ok. But that's a pretty circuitous
route to achieve what I am sure many many people working in lexically rich
disciplines would love to have and when I describe the hack to people who would
like to have global autocomplete their eyes start to roll back after the first
sentence.
At the UX level, perhaps along with the "collect words" and "discard when
closing document" check boxes in the Tools/Autocorrect/Autocorrect Options
panel, add a "add words to global autocomplete list" checkbox.
Then, in options/settings, a choice to "always load global autocomplete list"
or just do it by default and, ideally, put a button on the toolbar "Turn On/Off
Global Autocomplete" scoped to the current document.
By the way I have 8K words in my prepopulated document and have no performance
issues on an old single core 4GB W7 machine so I don't see why the limit
couldn't be bumped up to 20K.
I really like autocomplete, have used e.g., LightKey which is a really nice
piece of commercial software, and as noted, evidently W10 has some global
autocomplete functionality.
But to provide a robust global autocomplete with an open source product as good
as LibreOffice would really advance the cause.
Thanks.</pre>
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