Date Autocomplete

D

DRead

A coworker has a problem with a date Autocomplete. As an
example, when she types in the year "2004", the
Autocomplete pop-up displays "2004-6-1", which gets
accepted as her entry when she presses "Enter" (since
she's at the end of the date, the "Enter" key is next).
How does she get rid of this particular Autocomplete? It's
not an Autotext entry. The default date format is
not "2004-6-1". We can't figure out where this
Autocomplete is coming from. She's got a workaround, but
it's annoying.
 
C

Charles Kenyon

If she presses the space bar before enter, it won't auto-complete. If she
presses Ctrl-Z after this happens it will fix itself. It is an annoyance.
 
D

Dread

Thanks. Yes, we know about the "fixes" but since it's the
date, the normal keyboard response is to press Enter to
move down to the next part of the address block. She
should not have to work around this. This autocomplete
should not exist...
 
C

Charles Kenyon

I never run into it because I don't type dates that end a paragraph. For
letters I use templates that already have date fields in them. Other dates
in the body of a document have periods after them, interrupting the
autocomplete.
 
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