Turning Off Automatic Capitalization

Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated May 26, 2018)
This tip applies to Word 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003

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.)

Figure 1. The AutoCorrect dialog box.

Clear the Capitalize First Letter of Sentences check box.
Click on OK.

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Allen Wyatt

With more than 50 non-fiction books and numerous magazine articles to his credit, Allen Wyatt is an internationally recognized author. He is president of Sharon Parq Associates, a computer and publishing services company. Learn more about Allen...

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What is four less than 4?

2018-06-05 19:13:17

Alexander Harcourt

Turn off automatic capitalization - "Choose AutoCorrect Options from the Tools menu. "

What Tools menu? My word page shows no Tools box, no Tools menu.

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