Sorry Thomas - the descent into Unicode characters was probably inappropriate given your needs, but that is one of the driving forces behind the feature that is annoying you, so likely inevitable diversion.
You're correct, it should be simple, and it actually is: Open Writer if it isn’t already. Then use either of these menu options: Format | Autocorrect | Autocorrect Options... Tools | Autocorrect Options… (They will each open the same tabbed dialog box.) The first tab (Replace) in the dialog should be selected; that is the one you want to use. You will need to scroll down through the entries until you arrive at the substitution you wish to disable. Depending on the sort order of your installation, I assume this order may be different, but on mine (U.S. English), the list begins with a large number of keywords surrounded by colons, e.g. ":keyword:" This permits you to type, for instance :something: and have it automatically be replaced by the character representing that “something” which might be an emoji, a complex fraction, or a wide variety of other things. A few entries after the final :Zeta: and :zzz: , you’ll see an entry .*(C) or .*(c) in the “Replace” column and © in the “With” column. Simply highlight that row, and press the Delete button on the right, and you should be inoculated against interference with your outline formatting. Depending on how lengthy your outlines might become, you might also want to disable the .*(R) or .*(r) entry below, which substitutes the ® symbol. If your sort order is different than mine, you'll just have to search carefully, but if the substitution is taking place, whatever key combination is causing it is there somewhere. I'm not sure what the ".*" in the ".*(C)" is; I assumed at first it was a regular expression (look that up if you're not familiar but still care), but on closer examination, I suspect it's a variant of that specifically for use in this list. Please post back if this does or doesn't address your issue, as it's an interesting problem ... -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/How-to-NOT-turn-c-into-a-symbol-tp4187226p4187463.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted