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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2018-06-05 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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