Are you using LibreOffice 4.4?

[cvkemp]

Originally Posted by gmw

Note that for the new "Emoji" stuff the release notes say: "The colon-separated names are handled specially by AutoCorrect feature of LibreOffice: they are replaced immediately within words, too (no need to press space after words)."

Since I don't use v5 yet I can't confirm, but it might be useful. I've only ever done a few macros with OO/LO - they do seem like a lot more hard work than they should be.

ETA: I touch-type, something I was taught at high school - and all us boys said "Erk! That's girls stuff." but it's turned out to be one of the more useful things I got from high school. The point being that I tend not to rely on autocorrect a whole lot, and bits of it I turn off as annoying and distracting. However, if you like that sort of stuff you might find it worth your while wading through the big collection of add-ons and pre-written macros etc.. (Don't forget that many of the old OpenOffice macros will work too.) If nothing else the pre-written macros can make useful examples.

I do not use macros at all and I too touch type. I am 67 years old and I taught myself to type in the 6 grade, I am left handed and never was able to even read my own writing. So I learned to type so the teachers could read my homework. Back then it was on the old manual type writers.

[kalwisti]

Originally Posted by Pinkie

Edited to amend the version. I'm actually using 5, not 4.4!

First, I apologize for being unable to offer any concrete solutions/suggestions, since I'm still using LO 4.3.3.2 on Debian Stable (Jessie) and don't plan on upgrading. I also don't mean to imply that Pinkie is doing anything wrong by using ver. 5; it sounds like s/he needs the "latest and greatest" features because of the type of writing involved.

I would just like to point out that ver. 5 is currently the "Fresh" version of LO; "Fresh" means that it is closer to a 'development' version and therefore isn't as stable as the "Still" version.

I don't know when LO adopted this terminology, but I personally find it confusing. There's an explanation of the terms here:

https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/quest...resh-or-still/
"Fresh or Still?" Posted 11 Aug. 2014.