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:
Figure 1. The AutoCorrect dialog box.
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2015-10-31 19:01:58
Greg Carlson
How do I turn off the "Capitalize the first letter of sentences" function?
2015-10-27 20:32:00
Sue
I second Walter. "Shift-enter" turns off capitalization. Can't get any simpler than that.
2015-02-26 14:13:54
Walter
Use "Shift-Enter" to start a new line without capitalization.
Don't turn off autocapitalization.
2014-12-18 11:28:12
MH
I have EXACTLY the same problem as Gates. Each blue squiggle requires me to "ignore" it in order to proof the word properly. It drives me crazy! I want to turn it off, and the obvious doesnt work (as described above).
2014-05-29 09:14:00
Buflojohn
I had the same problem.
However I found that if you also uncheck
the "Replace text as you type" box it will take of the problem.
2013-08-06 02:31:31
GatesMW50C
I did EXACTLY what you said, autocorrect his selected, unchecked the boxes for capitalizing the 1st letter, AND the 1st letter of Table Cells
and hit OK. Office 2013 CONTINUES to CAPITALIZE the first line of each line regardless. What's up with this?
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