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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2018-03-26 12:57:40
harcourt
My Word does not have a Tools Menu on the top bar. Where is the Tools Menu? As usual you never start at the beginning. WHERE is the Tools menu?
2018-01-17 14:39:41
james
Go to "FILE" tab, and the bottom option will be "Options". Select that and there will be a button in the menu called AUTOCORRECT options.
Select that and turn the different parts of Autocorrect off.
2018-01-04 13:30:22
Harcourt
Why do you people always start three or four steps in???
Where is the Tools menu.???
If what I want is in the Tools menu, TELL ME WHERE THE TOOLS MENU IS.
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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