How to stop Word from Auto-Capitalizing?

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After an enter or a full stop, MS-Word will auto-capitalize the next word. This is really annoying when you're writing technical documentation with lots of code, field names etc. How do I turn it off?

I'm using Word 2003, but answers for any version of word will probably be useful for other people.

codeulike

Posted 2010-02-08T10:24:05.680

Reputation: 1 080

Answers

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It's under your AutoCorrect settings for Word 2003

Selecting/Deselecting AutoCorrect Options

  • From the Tools menu, select AutoCorrect Options...

    The AutoCorrect dialog box appears.

  • Select the AutoCorrect tab

    The AutoCorrect options are preceded by checkboxes.

  • Click the checkboxes for the options you want to activate

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    NOTE: A checkmark in the box indicates an option is selected and active.

  • Click OK

Here's how to do it in Word 2007

Ivo Flipse

Posted 2010-02-08T10:24:05.680

Reputation: 24 054

Note that the screenshot doesn't have circles on the correct option, though, since it's most likely the "Capitalize first letter of sentences", that he wants to uncheck. – Gnoupi – 2010-02-08T10:52:03.133

This any better? – Ivo Flipse – 2010-02-08T11:13:59.117

Thanks, I was looking in the Options dialog instead of the Autocorrect options ... – codeulike – 2010-02-08T11:17:48.467