Weekly Review: Auto Complete

One of the newer GP features is Auto Complete. Like many other MS apps, when you start to type, you get a suggestion of possible words to fill in without having to type the whole word. But what if you mistype a word, is it there forever? Are you stuck with the word Flugelthorpe, even though you sold that division last year?

You actually have a fair amount of control over Auto Complete. The settings are found in Tools-Setup-User Preferences-Auto Complete. Here you have the power to turn Auto Complete on and off. You can set unused entries to be removed after so many days. You can limit the total number of auto entry words stored per field and you can remove all the auto entries and start over.

As for deleting an entry you don't want, when you start typing in a field, the auto entries for that field pop up. Simply find an entry you want to get rid and right click with the mouse. Pick "Remove from list" and that entry is gone.

Originally Posted by Mark at 8/02/2006 01:00:00 PM

Weekly Dynamic: Deleting an Auto Complete Error

We all love the Auto Complete functionality in Dynamics GP, you know that thing where you start typing and GP fills in with things you've typed before. it's like it's reading your mind. But what happens if you make a mistake and misspell something, like an employees name? Are you stuck with that misspelling forever?

No way! This is actually really easy to fix. Start typing the misspelled word and when it appears as an auto complete choice, highlight it with the mouse and right click on the misspelling. A box will pop up showing "Remove from list". Click on that and the entry will go away.

That's all that there is to it.

This was actually covered as part of the Weekly Dynamic on the Auto Complete function but a number of people weren't aware that you could do this so I decided to split it out and give it it's own Weekly Dynamic.

Weekly Dynamic: Auto Complete

One of the newer GP features is Auto Complete. Like many other MS apps, when you start to type, you get a suggestion of possible words to fill in without having to type the whole word. But what if you mistype a word, is it there forever? Are you stuck with the word Flugelthorpe, even though you sold that division last year?

You actually have a fair amount of control over Auto Complete. The settings are found in Tools-Setup-User Preferences-Auto Complete. Here you have the power to turn Auto Complete on and off. You can set unused entries to be removed after so many days. You can limit the total number of auto entry words stored per field and you can remove all the auto entries and start over.

As for deleting an entry you don't want, when you start typing in a field, the auto entries for that field pop up. Simply find an entry you want to get rid and right click with the mouse. Pick "Remove from list" and that entry is gone.