Eight letters is a pretty good number, but you can raise or lower it to your liking. Minimum word length: adjusts the length of letters necessary to add a word to the AutoComplete list.Enter is default, but End, the right arrow, Tab, and the space bar are also options. Accept with: choose the key you want to activate AutoComplete with.When closing a document: removes the collected words every time you close your current document.Disable this if you don’t want to add any new words to the list: Collect words: automatically adds words as you type.If you disable this, autocompleted words will appear highlighted in blue, like this: Show as a tip: the default behavior for later versions of Writer, as seen above.Literally just saves you from pressing the spacebar. Append space: adds a single space to an autocompleted word after you press the accept button (Enter by default).Here are the ones you’ll want to pay attention to-enable or disable them as you like. The other options on this menu allow you to do some deeper customization.

There’s no way to manually add a word here, but you can do that by leaving the default settings enabled and simply typing a word longer than the minimum letter length.

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