[Gregg Bell]

Originally Posted by avantman42

I'm confused. Why have you added an extra dot after the square brackets?

It works for me (see screenshot 1). If it isn't working, it might be because you're using smart quotes and you're searching for the wrong type of quote mark. (I don't use smart quotes).

Thanks Russell. I got it. I was confused.

Originally Posted by avantman42

I turn it off, but it's really a personal preference thing. If you want to turn it off, go to Tools -> AutoCorrect Options. Go to the Options tab and uncheck the two boxes to the left of Use replacement table. If you're really paranoid, you can also delete all the entries on the Replace tab. Personally, I uncheck everything on the Options tab (see screenshot 2), because I don't want it to correct anything.

Okay, got it. But wow, I had no idea it was doing all those different features automatically. What is the difference between the the M and T? (I mean, I read what it said about T being automatic and M being manual but couldn't figure out how that played out in actuality.) I tried to figure it out typing but couldn't.

And so you unchecked everything. Okay. I'm going to have to look at that closer. I'm definitely not going to want most of it, like the word replace, but I like the double hyphens getting converted to the em dash.

I was wondering if:

Delete spaces and tabs at beginning and end of paragraph

and

Delete spaces and tabs at end and start of line

might be good to have, but I couldn't see how they worked either. (When I had them both engaged the extra spaces were still there.) I'm probably not understanding it properly. I'm just wondering if those two features might save me time when I turn the .odt into .html and then into an .epub.

Thanks.