# How to turn off automatic conversion?

**URL:** <https://discourse.hypatiasys.com/t/how-to-turn-off-automatic-conversion/144>\
**Category:** Hypatia Create\
**Created:** [July 20, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://discourse.hypatiasys.com/t/how-to-turn-off-automatic-conversion/144 "2022-07-20T18:59:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![dasobel](https://discourse.hypatiasys.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7bcc69/32.png) [@dasobel](https://discourse.hypatiasys.com/u/dasobel)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://discourse.hypatiasys.com/t/how-to-turn-off-automatic-conversion/144/1 "2022-07-20T18:59:34Z")

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Hi,

Hypatia create is **great**! However, it’s a bit too smart for it’s own good. I tried creating an equation that used a variable named “pin”, but the equation editor automatically converted the “pi” into the Greek letter “pi”, so “pin” turned into “n” , which is obviously undesired.

I got a notification the conversion was automatic and that ctrl-z would undo it. So I could get it back to what I wanted. But I want to turn off this automatic conversion. I don’t want “pi” to turn into the Greek letter, since the Latex format of “\pi” is good enough for me.

How do I turn off the auto-conversion? It keeps cropping up all over the place…

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**Author:** ![admin](https://discourse.hypatiasys.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/3ec8ea/32.png) [@admin](https://discourse.hypatiasys.com/u/admin)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2023, 5:37am UTC](https://discourse.hypatiasys.com/t/how-to-turn-off-automatic-conversion/144/2 "2023-02-23T05:37:46Z")

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Currently, there is no option to turn off automatic conversions. However, you can switch to text mode, either by clicking on the T icon on the left or by pressing Alt-T. Autoconversions are turned of in the text mode. In addition, it might be desirable to type a variable pin in text font to differentiate it from implicit multiplication p_i_n:  
 ![image](https://discourse.hypatiasys.com/uploads/default/original/1X/83367ac8f7e82f9b2cf956a28ef05a191b963cdb.png)

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**Author:** ![owuser](https://discourse.hypatiasys.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@owuser](https://discourse.hypatiasys.com/u/owuser)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2023, 6:31pm UTC](https://discourse.hypatiasys.com/t/how-to-turn-off-automatic-conversion/144/3 "2023-05-16T18:31:30Z")

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I personally find autoconversions to be less helpful than useful. Would really appreciate ability to turn them off. Why do I need “ast” to be converted to “\*” when I can just press shift 8? Good intentions, but constantly having to convert things to text seems needlessly inefficient.