Simple: Automatic Word Completion
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You’re probably not aware, but Mac OS X has a simple type of automatic word completion built right into it! It’s available in nearly every program you use, and nearly every text box you need to type in. It’s far from perfect - it doesn’t offer definitions to help you choose between possible words for example - but it’s here and it’s free and anybody can use it.
The trick is simply to type the start of your word and press escape (some keyboards may require you to press option-escape). You’ll see a list of all possible endings like this:
You can select the desired word by double-clicking with the mouse, or using the arrow keys to highlight the word you want and pressing enter.
- Ricky Buchanan, ATMac
Oh that’s great ! .. And it even works in localised version of Mac OS X ! .. I have just tested it on a French system and it works perfectly !
I can’t get this to work, using Word. Any suggestions?
@Terry: Unfortunately it won’t work with Microsoft Word because the Microsoft people don’t follow the regular Apple standards when writing their Mac versions. If you need to use it with a word processor, it works in iWork’s “Pages” word processor, and in TextEdit - perhaps they can do the job?