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Turning Off Automatic Capitalization
As you are typing away on a document, you may have noticed that periodically Word will second-guess what you are doing and capitalize words for you. In general, Word does this when it thinks you are starting a new sentence. If you find yourself undoing Word's decisions on this issue quite a bit, you can turn off the feature completely by following these steps:
- Choose AutoCorrect Options from the Tools menu. Word displays the AutoCorrect dialog box.
- Make sure the AutoCorrect tab is displayed. (See Figure 1.)
- Clear the Capitalize First Letter of Sentences check box.
- Click on OK.
Figure 1. The AutoCorrect dialog box.
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