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wants to capitalize the first letter in the first word of every li
I have even turned off the "capitalize first word of sentence" to try to get
rid of this but it is still following me around. There is a green sawtooth line under the first word of each line. On some docs it is the first word of every line that isn't capitalized already, on others it is just a few random first words. When I rt click on it, it wants to capitalize the first word of a sentence. And just to add a general comment, this whole word program is just way too complicated and way more than I need. I spend a lot of time straightening out things it wants to do and I don't. I had a Mac and did not fall in love with it. It was a bit of a lemon, but one thing I really liked about it was TextEdit, a simple word processing program that did everything I needed. When I did have it, I really did not need word and never even thought of getting it. Pardon the grouch, but it is getting to be a pain. |
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Word wouldn't want to capitalize the first word of every line if it were not
the beginning of a paragraph. It assumes that the beginning of a paragraph is also the beginning of a sentence. If you don't want to start a new paragraph, then don't press Enter. Either let the line wrap naturally or, if you must start a new line before it wraps, use a line break (Shift+Enter) instead. And if you don't want to see the green squiggles, turn off "Check grammar as you type." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Closed Office" wrote in message ... I have even turned off the "capitalize first word of sentence" to try to get rid of this but it is still following me around. There is a green sawtooth line under the first word of each line. On some docs it is the first word of every line that isn't capitalized already, on others it is just a few random first words. When I rt click on it, it wants to capitalize the first word of a sentence. And just to add a general comment, this whole word program is just way too complicated and way more than I need. I spend a lot of time straightening out things it wants to do and I don't. I had a Mac and did not fall in love with it. It was a bit of a lemon, but one thing I really liked about it was TextEdit, a simple word processing program that did everything I needed. When I did have it, I really did not need word and never even thought of getting it. Pardon the grouch, but it is getting to be a pain. |
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I'm not at all a big fan of white space and don't hit enter until I am at the
end of a paragraph, usually about 4 or 5 lines for me. That is always before the start of a new paragraph and I always do capitalize that. The Word urge to capitalize does happen on lines started by regular word wrap. I don't quite want to turn off the check grammar feature because I do get useful suggestions from it that I do appreciate. I do appreciate that the possibility was worth checking out though. Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Word wouldn't want to capitalize the first word of every line if it were not the beginning of a paragraph. It assumes that the beginning of a paragraph is also the beginning of a sentence. If you don't want to start a new paragraph, then don't press Enter. Either let the line wrap naturally or, if you must start a new line before it wraps, use a line break (Shift+Enter) instead. And if you don't want to see the green squiggles, turn off "Check grammar as you type." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Closed Office" wrote in message ... I have even turned off the "capitalize first word of sentence" to try to get rid of this but it is still following me around. There is a green sawtooth line under the first word of each line. On some docs it is the first word of every line that isn't capitalized already, on others it is just a few random first words. When I rt click on it, it wants to capitalize the first word of a sentence. And just to add a general comment, this whole word program is just way too complicated and way more than I need. I spend a lot of time straightening out things it wants to do and I don't. I had a Mac and did not fall in love with it. It was a bit of a lemon, but one thing I really liked about it was TextEdit, a simple word processing program that did everything I needed. When I did have it, I really did not need word and never even thought of getting it. Pardon the grouch, but it is getting to be a pain. |
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You really should not be getting that AutoCorrect or grammar hints if you're
letting lines wrap naturally. If you are, then this is a bug that should be reported and investigated. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Closed Office" wrote in message news I'm not at all a big fan of white space and don't hit enter until I am at the end of a paragraph, usually about 4 or 5 lines for me. That is always before the start of a new paragraph and I always do capitalize that. The Word urge to capitalize does happen on lines started by regular word wrap. I don't quite want to turn off the check grammar feature because I do get useful suggestions from it that I do appreciate. I do appreciate that the possibility was worth checking out though. Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Word wouldn't want to capitalize the first word of every line if it were not the beginning of a paragraph. It assumes that the beginning of a paragraph is also the beginning of a sentence. If you don't want to start a new paragraph, then don't press Enter. Either let the line wrap naturally or, if you must start a new line before it wraps, use a line break (Shift+Enter) instead. And if you don't want to see the green squiggles, turn off "Check grammar as you type." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Closed Office" wrote in message ... I have even turned off the "capitalize first word of sentence" to try to get rid of this but it is still following me around. There is a green sawtooth line under the first word of each line. On some docs it is the first word of every line that isn't capitalized already, on others it is just a few random first words. When I rt click on it, it wants to capitalize the first word of a sentence. And just to add a general comment, this whole word program is just way too complicated and way more than I need. I spend a lot of time straightening out things it wants to do and I don't. I had a Mac and did not fall in love with it. It was a bit of a lemon, but one thing I really liked about it was TextEdit, a simple word processing program that did everything I needed. When I did have it, I really did not need word and never even thought of getting it. Pardon the grouch, but it is getting to be a pain. |
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Capitalizing the first word of a line after a word wrap is definitely
not normal. What happens if you add or subtract some words from the previous line, so that a different word starts the next wrapped line? Are you doing something _else_ before Word does the capitalizing thing, such as ending a word (or abbreviation) with a period? On Mar 27, 4:49*pm, Closed Office wrote: I'm not at all a big fan of white space and don't hit enter until I am at the end of a paragraph, usually about 4 or 5 lines for me. That is always before the start of a new paragraph and I always do capitalize that. The Word urge to capitalize does happen on lines started by regular word wrap. I don't quite want to turn off the check grammar feature because I do get useful suggestions from it that I do appreciate. I do appreciate that the possibility was worth checking out though. Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Word wouldn't want to capitalize the first word of every line if it were not the beginning of a paragraph. It assumes that the beginning of a paragraph is also the beginning of a sentence. If you don't want to start a new paragraph, then don't press Enter. Either let the line wrap naturally or, if you must start a new line before it wraps, use a line break (Shift+Enter) instead. And if you don't want to see the green squiggles, turn off "Check grammar as you type." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Closed Office" wrote in message ... I have even turned off the "capitalize first word of sentence" to try to get rid of this but it is still following me around. There is a green sawtooth line under the first word of each line. On some docs it is the first word of every line that isn't capitalized already, on others it is just a few random first words. When I rt click on it, it wants to capitalize the first word of a sentence. And just to add a general comment, this whole word program is just way too complicated and way more than I need. I spend a lot of time straightening out things it wants to do and I don't. I had a Mac and did not fall in love with it. It was a bit of a lemon, but one thing I really liked about it was TextEdit, a simple word processing program that did everything I needed. When I did have it, I really did not need word and never even thought of getting it. Pardon the grouch, but it is getting to be a pain.- |
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OK, sorry I have to apologize. Two of you were right. I just went through a
few docs to double check and it isn't happening with natural organic word wrap. The one docx I found with that happening was an article I had pasted with lines that were not full length. I guess they had been ended by hitting enter. I might be wrong again but I thought it was happening when I was typing without hitting enter, at least sometimes. I am a bit wrecked and don't get a day off until Tuesday, so won't get into work with Word until then. But is there a way to stop Word from wanting to capitalize the shorter lines? I don't understand why that is happening. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You really should not be getting that AutoCorrect or grammar hints if you're letting lines wrap naturally. If you are, then this is a bug that should be reported and investigated. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Closed Office" wrote in message news I'm not at all a big fan of white space and don't hit enter until I am at the end of a paragraph, usually about 4 or 5 lines for me. That is always before the start of a new paragraph and I always do capitalize that. The Word urge to capitalize does happen on lines started by regular word wrap. I don't quite want to turn off the check grammar feature because I do get useful suggestions from it that I do appreciate. I do appreciate that the possibility was worth checking out though. Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Word wouldn't want to capitalize the first word of every line if it were not the beginning of a paragraph. It assumes that the beginning of a paragraph is also the beginning of a sentence. If you don't want to start a new paragraph, then don't press Enter. Either let the line wrap naturally or, if you must start a new line before it wraps, use a line break (Shift+Enter) instead. And if you don't want to see the green squiggles, turn off "Check grammar as you type." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Closed Office" wrote in message ... I have even turned off the "capitalize first word of sentence" to try to get rid of this but it is still following me around. There is a green sawtooth line under the first word of each line. On some docs it is the first word of every line that isn't capitalized already, on others it is just a few random first words. When I rt click on it, it wants to capitalize the first word of a sentence. And just to add a general comment, this whole word program is just way too complicated and way more than I need. I spend a lot of time straightening out things it wants to do and I don't. I had a Mac and did not fall in love with it. It was a bit of a lemon, but one thing I really liked about it was TextEdit, a simple word processing program that did everything I needed. When I did have it, I really did not need word and never even thought of getting it. Pardon the grouch, but it is getting to be a pain. |
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And just to add a bit of info. I wondered just briefly today while I was
running around, why enter would be the start of a paragraph instead of a line break. I have single line spacing set up so I have to hit enter twice. It took until about 10 minutes after I went to bed before I realized that most people don't have it set up that way. So the first reply did answer my question, use shift + enter. I heard someone say one time "Our brain has a 3 position switch, smart, neutral, and stupid. Sometimes it just gets stuck on stupid." It explained whole days of my life to me, and this might have been one of them. So thanks for the help. One more little thing is finally adjusted. That was a lot of typing. I'm going to run back into the office, slam the door and pour a double brandy. Thanks and best wishes, closed |
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The "capitalize first word of sentence" you mention in your first
message should take care of it -- if you're using documents that you didn't create from your own template where you turned it off, it's probably still turned on in them, and you can go in and fix it individually. On Mar 27, 11:25*pm, Closed Office wrote: OK, sorry I have to apologize. Two of you were right. I just went through a few docs to double check and it isn't happening with natural organic word wrap. The one docx I found with that happening was an article I had pasted with lines that were not full length. I guess they had been ended by hitting enter. I might be wrong again but I thought it was happening when I was typing without hitting enter, at least sometimes. I am a bit wrecked and don't get a day off until Tuesday, so won't get into work with Word until then. But is there a way to stop Word from wanting to capitalize the shorter lines? I don't understand why that is happening. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You really should not be getting that AutoCorrect or grammar hints if you're letting lines wrap naturally. If you are, then this is a bug that should be reported and investigated. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Closed Office" wrote in message news I'm not at all a big fan of white space and don't hit enter until I am at the end of a paragraph, usually about 4 or 5 lines for me. That is always before the start of a new paragraph and I always do capitalize that. The Word urge to capitalize does happen on lines started by regular word wrap. I don't quite want to turn off the check grammar feature because I do get useful suggestions from it that I do appreciate. I do appreciate that the possibility was worth checking out though. Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Word wouldn't want to capitalize the first word of every line if it were not the beginning of a paragraph. It assumes that the beginning of a paragraph is also the beginning of a sentence. If you don't want to start a new paragraph, then don't press Enter. Either let the line wrap naturally or, if you must start a new line before it wraps, use a line break (Shift+Enter) instead. And if you don't want to see the green squiggles, turn off "Check grammar as you type." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Closed Office" wrote in message ... I have even turned off the "capitalize first word of sentence" to try to get rid of this but it is still following me around. There is a green sawtooth line under the first word of each line. On some docs it is the first word of every line that isn't capitalized already, on others it is just a few random first words. When I rt click on it, it wants to capitalize the first word of a sentence. And just to add a general comment, this whole word program is just way too complicated and way more than I need. I spend a lot of time straightening out things it wants to do and I don't. I had a Mac and did not fall in love with it. It was a bit of a lemon, but one thing I really liked about it was TextEdit, a simple word processing program that did everything I needed. When I did have it, I really did not need word and never even thought of getting it. Pardon the grouch, but it is getting to be a pain.- |
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That setting is global, however, so it will affect all new documents, and
changing it will have no effect on existing documents. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... The "capitalize first word of sentence" you mention in your first message should take care of it -- if you're using documents that you didn't create from your own template where you turned it off, it's probably still turned on in them, and you can go in and fix it individually. On Mar 27, 11:25 pm, Closed Office wrote: OK, sorry I have to apologize. Two of you were right. I just went through a few docs to double check and it isn't happening with natural organic word wrap. The one docx I found with that happening was an article I had pasted with lines that were not full length. I guess they had been ended by hitting enter. I might be wrong again but I thought it was happening when I was typing without hitting enter, at least sometimes. I am a bit wrecked and don't get a day off until Tuesday, so won't get into work with Word until then. But is there a way to stop Word from wanting to capitalize the shorter lines? I don't understand why that is happening. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You really should not be getting that AutoCorrect or grammar hints if you're letting lines wrap naturally. If you are, then this is a bug that should be reported and investigated. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Closed Office" wrote in message news I'm not at all a big fan of white space and don't hit enter until I am at the end of a paragraph, usually about 4 or 5 lines for me. That is always before the start of a new paragraph and I always do capitalize that. The Word urge to capitalize does happen on lines started by regular word wrap. I don't quite want to turn off the check grammar feature because I do get useful suggestions from it that I do appreciate. I do appreciate that the possibility was worth checking out though. Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Word wouldn't want to capitalize the first word of every line if it were not the beginning of a paragraph. It assumes that the beginning of a paragraph is also the beginning of a sentence. If you don't want to start a new paragraph, then don't press Enter. Either let the line wrap naturally or, if you must start a new line before it wraps, use a line break (Shift+Enter) instead. And if you don't want to see the green squiggles, turn off "Check grammar as you type." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Closed Office" wrote in message ... I have even turned off the "capitalize first word of sentence" to try to get rid of this but it is still following me around. There is a green sawtooth line under the first word of each line. On some docs it is the first word of every line that isn't capitalized already, on others it is just a few random first words. When I rt click on it, it wants to capitalize the first word of a sentence. And just to add a general comment, this whole word program is just way too complicated and way more than I need. I spend a lot of time straightening out things it wants to do and I don't. I had a Mac and did not fall in love with it. It was a bit of a lemon, but one thing I really liked about it was TextEdit, a simple word processing program that did everything I needed. When I did have it, I really did not need word and never even thought of getting it. Pardon the grouch, but it is getting to be a pain.- |
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For those pasted docs with lines that end in line or paragraph breaks, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Closed Office" wrote in message news OK, sorry I have to apologize. Two of you were right. I just went through a few docs to double check and it isn't happening with natural organic word wrap. The one docx I found with that happening was an article I had pasted with lines that were not full length. I guess they had been ended by hitting enter. I might be wrong again but I thought it was happening when I was typing without hitting enter, at least sometimes. I am a bit wrecked and don't get a day off until Tuesday, so won't get into work with Word until then. But is there a way to stop Word from wanting to capitalize the shorter lines? I don't understand why that is happening. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You really should not be getting that AutoCorrect or grammar hints if you're letting lines wrap naturally. If you are, then this is a bug that should be reported and investigated. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Closed Office" wrote in message news I'm not at all a big fan of white space and don't hit enter until I am at the end of a paragraph, usually about 4 or 5 lines for me. That is always before the start of a new paragraph and I always do capitalize that. The Word urge to capitalize does happen on lines started by regular word wrap. I don't quite want to turn off the check grammar feature because I do get useful suggestions from it that I do appreciate. I do appreciate that the possibility was worth checking out though. Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Word wouldn't want to capitalize the first word of every line if it were not the beginning of a paragraph. It assumes that the beginning of a paragraph is also the beginning of a sentence. If you don't want to start a new paragraph, then don't press Enter. Either let the line wrap naturally or, if you must start a new line before it wraps, use a line break (Shift+Enter) instead. And if you don't want to see the green squiggles, turn off "Check grammar as you type." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Closed Office" wrote in message ... I have even turned off the "capitalize first word of sentence" to try to get rid of this but it is still following me around. There is a green sawtooth line under the first word of each line. On some docs it is the first word of every line that isn't capitalized already, on others it is just a few random first words. When I rt click on it, it wants to capitalize the first word of a sentence. And just to add a general comment, this whole word program is just way too complicated and way more than I need. I spend a lot of time straightening out things it wants to do and I don't. I had a Mac and did not fall in love with it. It was a bit of a lemon, but one thing I really liked about it was TextEdit, a simple word processing program that did everything I needed. When I did have it, I really did not need word and never even thought of getting it. Pardon the grouch, but it is getting to be a pain. |
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That's what I said ... "go in and fix it individually."
On Mar 28, 10:16*am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: That setting is global, however, so it will affect all new documents, and changing it will have no effect on existing documents. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... The "capitalize first word of sentence" you mention in your first message should take care of it -- if you're using documents that you didn't create from your own template where you turned it off, it's probably still turned on in them, and you can go in and fix it individually. On Mar 27, 11:25 pm, Closed Office wrote: OK, sorry I have to apologize. Two of you were right. I just went through a few docs to double check and it isn't happening with natural organic word wrap. The one docx I found with that happening was an article I had pasted with lines that were not full length. I guess they had been ended by hitting enter. I might be wrong again but I thought it was happening when I was typing without hitting enter, at least sometimes. I am a bit wrecked and don't get a day off until Tuesday, so won't get into work with Word until then. But is there a way to stop Word from wanting to capitalize the shorter lines? I don't understand why that is happening. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You really should not be getting that AutoCorrect or grammar hints if you're letting lines wrap naturally. If you are, then this is a bug that should be reported and investigated. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Closed Office" wrote in message news I'm not at all a big fan of white space and don't hit enter until I am at the end of a paragraph, usually about 4 or 5 lines for me. That is always before the start of a new paragraph and I always do capitalize that. The Word urge to capitalize does happen on lines started by regular word wrap. I don't quite want to turn off the check grammar feature because I do get useful suggestions from it that I do appreciate. I do appreciate that the possibility was worth checking out though. Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Word wouldn't want to capitalize the first word of every line if it were not the beginning of a paragraph. It assumes that the beginning of a paragraph is also the beginning of a sentence. If you don't want to start a new paragraph, then don't press Enter. Either let the line wrap naturally or, if you must start a new line before it wraps, use a line break (Shift+Enter) instead. And if you don't want to see the green squiggles, turn off "Check grammar as you type." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Closed Office" wrote in message ... I have even turned off the "capitalize first word of sentence" to try to get rid of this but it is still following me around. There is a green sawtooth line under the first word of each line. On some docs it is the first word of every line that isn't capitalized already, on others it is just a few random first words. When I rt click on it, it wants to capitalize the first word of a sentence. And just to add a general comment, this whole word program is just way too complicated and way more than I need. I spend a lot of time straightening out things it wants to do and I don't. I had a Mac and did not fall in love with it. It was a bit of a lemon, but one thing I really liked about it was TextEdit, a simple word processing program that did everything I needed. When I did have it, I really did not need word and never even thought of getting it. Pardon the grouch, but it is getting to be a pain.-- |
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My point is that you can't "turn it off" in a specific template. You said,
"your own template where you turned it off." The setting is either on or off for the entire application at any given time. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... That's what I said ... "go in and fix it individually." On Mar 28, 10:16 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: That setting is global, however, so it will affect all new documents, and changing it will have no effect on existing documents. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... The "capitalize first word of sentence" you mention in your first message should take care of it -- if you're using documents that you didn't create from your own template where you turned it off, it's probably still turned on in them, and you can go in and fix it individually. On Mar 27, 11:25 pm, Closed Office wrote: OK, sorry I have to apologize. Two of you were right. I just went through a few docs to double check and it isn't happening with natural organic word wrap. The one docx I found with that happening was an article I had pasted with lines that were not full length. I guess they had been ended by hitting enter. I might be wrong again but I thought it was happening when I was typing without hitting enter, at least sometimes. I am a bit wrecked and don't get a day off until Tuesday, so won't get into work with Word until then. But is there a way to stop Word from wanting to capitalize the shorter lines? I don't understand why that is happening. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You really should not be getting that AutoCorrect or grammar hints if you're letting lines wrap naturally. If you are, then this is a bug that should be reported and investigated. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Closed Office" wrote in message news I'm not at all a big fan of white space and don't hit enter until I am at the end of a paragraph, usually about 4 or 5 lines for me. That is always before the start of a new paragraph and I always do capitalize that. The Word urge to capitalize does happen on lines started by regular word wrap. I don't quite want to turn off the check grammar feature because I do get useful suggestions from it that I do appreciate. I do appreciate that the possibility was worth checking out though. Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Word wouldn't want to capitalize the first word of every line if it were not the beginning of a paragraph. It assumes that the beginning of a paragraph is also the beginning of a sentence. If you don't want to start a new paragraph, then don't press Enter. Either let the line wrap naturally or, if you must start a new line before it wraps, use a line break (Shift+Enter) instead. And if you don't want to see the green squiggles, turn off "Check grammar as you type." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Closed Office" wrote in message ... I have even turned off the "capitalize first word of sentence" to try to get rid of this but it is still following me around. There is a green sawtooth line under the first word of each line. On some docs it is the first word of every line that isn't capitalized already, on others it is just a few random first words. When I rt click on it, it wants to capitalize the first word of a sentence. And just to add a general comment, this whole word program is just way too complicated and way more than I need. I spend a lot of time straightening out things it wants to do and I don't. I had a Mac and did not fall in love with it. It was a bit of a lemon, but one thing I really liked about it was TextEdit, a simple word processing program that did everything I needed. When I did have it, I really did not need word and never even thought of getting it. Pardon the grouch, but it is getting to be a pain.-- |
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Just as well ... I don't see that it ever does anyone any good. (But
then the green squiggles would drive me crazy anyway.) On Mar 28, 12:24*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: My point is that you can't "turn it off" in a specific template. You said, "your own template where you turned it off." The setting is either on or off for the entire application at any given time. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... That's what I said ... "go in and fix it individually." On Mar 28, 10:16 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: That setting is global, however, so it will affect all new documents, and changing it will have no effect on existing documents. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message .... The "capitalize first word of sentence" you mention in your first message should take care of it -- if you're using documents that you didn't create from your own template where you turned it off, it's probably still turned on in them, and you can go in and fix it individually. On Mar 27, 11:25 pm, Closed Office wrote: OK, sorry I have to apologize. Two of you were right. I just went through a few docs to double check and it isn't happening with natural organic word wrap. The one docx I found with that happening was an article I had pasted with lines that were not full length. I guess they had been ended by hitting enter. I might be wrong again but I thought it was happening when I was typing without hitting enter, at least sometimes. I am a bit wrecked and don't get a day off until Tuesday, so won't get into work with Word until then. But is there a way to stop Word from wanting to capitalize the shorter lines? I don't understand why that is happening. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You really should not be getting that AutoCorrect or grammar hints if you're letting lines wrap naturally. If you are, then this is a bug that should be reported and investigated. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Closed Office" wrote in message news I'm not at all a big fan of white space and don't hit enter until I am at the end of a paragraph, usually about 4 or 5 lines for me. That is always before the start of a new paragraph and I always do capitalize that. The Word urge to capitalize does happen on lines started by regular word wrap. I don't quite want to turn off the check grammar feature because I do get useful suggestions from it that I do appreciate. I do appreciate that the possibility was worth checking out though. Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Word wouldn't want to capitalize the first word of every line if it were not the beginning of a paragraph. It assumes that the beginning of a paragraph is also the beginning of a sentence. If you don't want to start a new paragraph, then don't press Enter. Either let the line wrap naturally or, if you must start a new line before it wraps, use a line break (Shift+Enter) instead. And if you don't want to see the green squiggles, turn off "Check grammar as you type." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Closed Office" wrote in message ... I have even turned off the "capitalize first word of sentence" to try to get rid of this but it is still following me around. There is a green sawtooth line under the first word of each line. On some docs it is the first word of every line that isn't capitalized already, on others it is just a few random first words. When I rt click on it, it wants to capitalize the first word of a sentence. And just to add a general comment, this whole word program is just way too complicated and way more than I need. I spend a lot of time straightening out things it wants to do and I don't. I had a Mac and did not fall in love with it. It was a bit of a lemon, but one thing I really liked about it was TextEdit, a simple word processing program that did everything I needed. When I did have it, I really did not need word and never even thought of getting it. Pardon the grouch, but it is getting to be a pain.--- |
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Sounds like you're talking now about the grammar checker. I certainly never
have that enabled, but I do have the setting to capitalize the first letter of sentences enabled. I don't often need it, but occasionally the auto correction is handy since my use of the Shift key can be erratic (or the Shift key on my keyboard is funky, or something). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... Just as well ... I don't see that it ever does anyone any good. (But then the green squiggles would drive me crazy anyway.) On Mar 28, 12:24 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: My point is that you can't "turn it off" in a specific template. You said, "your own template where you turned it off." The setting is either on or off for the entire application at any given time. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... That's what I said ... "go in and fix it individually." On Mar 28, 10:16 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: That setting is global, however, so it will affect all new documents, and changing it will have no effect on existing documents. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... The "capitalize first word of sentence" you mention in your first message should take care of it -- if you're using documents that you didn't create from your own template where you turned it off, it's probably still turned on in them, and you can go in and fix it individually. On Mar 27, 11:25 pm, Closed Office wrote: OK, sorry I have to apologize. Two of you were right. I just went through a few docs to double check and it isn't happening with natural organic word wrap. The one docx I found with that happening was an article I had pasted with lines that were not full length. I guess they had been ended by hitting enter. I might be wrong again but I thought it was happening when I was typing without hitting enter, at least sometimes. I am a bit wrecked and don't get a day off until Tuesday, so won't get into work with Word until then. But is there a way to stop Word from wanting to capitalize the shorter lines? I don't understand why that is happening. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You really should not be getting that AutoCorrect or grammar hints if you're letting lines wrap naturally. If you are, then this is a bug that should be reported and investigated. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Closed Office" wrote in message news I'm not at all a big fan of white space and don't hit enter until I am at the end of a paragraph, usually about 4 or 5 lines for me. That is always before the start of a new paragraph and I always do capitalize that. The Word urge to capitalize does happen on lines started by regular word wrap. I don't quite want to turn off the check grammar feature because I do get useful suggestions from it that I do appreciate. I do appreciate that the possibility was worth checking out though. Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Word wouldn't want to capitalize the first word of every line if it were not the beginning of a paragraph. It assumes that the beginning of a paragraph is also the beginning of a sentence. If you don't want to start a new paragraph, then don't press Enter. Either let the line wrap naturally or, if you must start a new line before it wraps, use a line break (Shift+Enter) instead. And if you don't want to see the green squiggles, turn off "Check grammar as you type." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Closed Office" wrote in message ... I have even turned off the "capitalize first word of sentence" to try to get rid of this but it is still following me around. There is a green sawtooth line under the first word of each line. On some docs it is the first word of every line that isn't capitalized already, on others it is just a few random first words. When I rt click on it, it wants to capitalize the first word of a sentence. And just to add a general comment, this whole word program is just way too complicated and way more than I need. I spend a lot of time straightening out things it wants to do and I don't. I had a Mac and did not fall in love with it. It was a bit of a lemon, but one thing I really liked about it was TextEdit, a simple word processing program that did everything I needed. When I did have it, I really did not need word and never even thought of getting it. Pardon the grouch, but it is getting to be a pain.--- |
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I meant the Capitalize First Word option -- because it does it after
abbreviations, and unless you tell it all the abbreviations you might use, you have to undo it -- if you happen to notice it when it happens rather than days later when you go back and read what you wrote. (I also don't want it to capitalize i, of course!) On Mar 28, 4:40*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Sounds like you're talking now about the grammar checker. I certainly never have that enabled, but I do have the setting to capitalize the first letter of sentences enabled. I don't often need it, but occasionally the auto correction is handy since my use of the Shift key can be erratic (or the Shift key on my keyboard is funky, or something). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... Just as well ... I don't see that it ever does anyone any good. (But then the green squiggles would drive me crazy anyway.) On Mar 28, 12:24 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: My point is that you can't "turn it off" in a specific template. You said, "your own template where you turned it off." The setting is either on or off for the entire application at any given time. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... That's what I said ... "go in and fix it individually." On Mar 28, 10:16 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: That setting is global, however, so it will affect all new documents, and changing it will have no effect on existing documents. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message .... The "capitalize first word of sentence" you mention in your first message should take care of it -- if you're using documents that you didn't create from your own template where you turned it off, it's probably still turned on in them, and you can go in and fix it individually. On Mar 27, 11:25 pm, Closed Office wrote: OK, sorry I have to apologize. Two of you were right. I just went through a few docs to double check and it isn't happening with natural organic word wrap. The one docx I found with that happening was an article I had pasted with lines that were not full length. I guess they had been ended by hitting enter. I might be wrong again but I thought it was happening when I was typing without hitting enter, at least sometimes. I am a bit wrecked and don't get a day off until Tuesday, so won't get into work with Word until then. But is there a way to stop Word from wanting to capitalize the shorter lines? I don't understand why that is happening. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You really should not be getting that AutoCorrect or grammar hints if you're letting lines wrap naturally. If you are, then this is a bug that should be reported and investigated. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Closed Office" wrote in message news I'm not at all a big fan of white space and don't hit enter until I am at the end of a paragraph, usually about 4 or 5 lines for me. That is always before the start of a new paragraph and I always do capitalize that. The Word urge to capitalize does happen on lines started by regular word wrap.. I don't quite want to turn off the check grammar feature because I do get useful suggestions from it that I do appreciate. I do appreciate that the possibility was worth checking out though. Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Word wouldn't want to capitalize the first word of every line if it were not the beginning of a paragraph. It assumes that the beginning of a paragraph is also the beginning of a sentence. If you don't want to start a new paragraph, then don't press Enter. Either let the line wrap naturally or, if you must start a new line before it wraps, use a line break (Shift+Enter) instead. And if you don't want to see the green squiggles, turn off "Check grammar as you type." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Closed Office" wrote in message ... I have even turned off the "capitalize first word of sentence" to try to get rid of this but it is still following me around. There is a green sawtooth line under the first word of each line. On some docs it is the first word of every line that isn't capitalized already, on others it is just a few random first words. When I rt click on it, it wants to capitalize the first word of a sentence. And just to add a general comment, this whole word program is just way too complicated and way more than I need. I spend a lot of time straightening out things it wants to do and I don't. I had a Mac and did not fall in love with it. It was a bit of a lemon, but one thing I really liked about it was TextEdit, a simple word processing program that did everything I needed. When I did have it, I really did not need word and never even thought of getting it. Pardon the grouch, but it is getting to be a pain.---- |
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wants to capitalize the first letter in the first word of ever
In general I find it more helpful than not, though I'll grant you have to
keep your eye on it; that's relatively easy for me because I watch the screen while I'm typing. When I'm working on specific projects where it would be unbearable (such as a dictionary, where every paragraph begins with an uncapitalized word), then I turn it off. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... I meant the Capitalize First Word option -- because it does it after abbreviations, and unless you tell it all the abbreviations you might use, you have to undo it -- if you happen to notice it when it happens rather than days later when you go back and read what you wrote. (I also don't want it to capitalize i, of course!) On Mar 28, 4:40 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Sounds like you're talking now about the grammar checker. I certainly never have that enabled, but I do have the setting to capitalize the first letter of sentences enabled. I don't often need it, but occasionally the auto correction is handy since my use of the Shift key can be erratic (or the Shift key on my keyboard is funky, or something). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... Just as well ... I don't see that it ever does anyone any good. (But then the green squiggles would drive me crazy anyway.) On Mar 28, 12:24 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: My point is that you can't "turn it off" in a specific template. You said, "your own template where you turned it off." The setting is either on or off for the entire application at any given time. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... That's what I said ... "go in and fix it individually." On Mar 28, 10:16 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: That setting is global, however, so it will affect all new documents, and changing it will have no effect on existing documents. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... The "capitalize first word of sentence" you mention in your first message should take care of it -- if you're using documents that you didn't create from your own template where you turned it off, it's probably still turned on in them, and you can go in and fix it individually. On Mar 27, 11:25 pm, Closed Office wrote: OK, sorry I have to apologize. Two of you were right. I just went through a few docs to double check and it isn't happening with natural organic word wrap. The one docx I found with that happening was an article I had pasted with lines that were not full length. I guess they had been ended by hitting enter. I might be wrong again but I thought it was happening when I was typing without hitting enter, at least sometimes. I am a bit wrecked and don't get a day off until Tuesday, so won't get into work with Word until then. But is there a way to stop Word from wanting to capitalize the shorter lines? I don't understand why that is happening. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You really should not be getting that AutoCorrect or grammar hints if you're letting lines wrap naturally. If you are, then this is a bug that should be reported and investigated. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Closed Office" wrote in message news I'm not at all a big fan of white space and don't hit enter until I am at the end of a paragraph, usually about 4 or 5 lines for me. That is always before the start of a new paragraph and I always do capitalize that. The Word urge to capitalize does happen on lines started by regular word wrap. I don't quite want to turn off the check grammar feature because I do get useful suggestions from it that I do appreciate. I do appreciate that the possibility was worth checking out though. Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Word wouldn't want to capitalize the first word of every line if it were not the beginning of a paragraph. It assumes that the beginning of a paragraph is also the beginning of a sentence. If you don't want to start a new paragraph, then don't press Enter. Either let the line wrap naturally or, if you must start a new line before it wraps, use a line break (Shift+Enter) instead. And if you don't want to see the green squiggles, turn off "Check grammar as you type." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Closed Office" wrote in message ... I have even turned off the "capitalize first word of sentence" to try to get rid of this but it is still following me around. There is a green sawtooth line under the first word of each line. On some docs it is the first word of every line that isn't capitalized already, on others it is just a few random first words. When I rt click on it, it wants to capitalize the first word of a sentence. And just to add a general comment, this whole word program is just way too complicated and way more than I need. I spend a lot of time straightening out things it wants to do and I don't. I had a Mac and did not fall in love with it. It was a bit of a lemon, but one thing I really liked about it was TextEdit, a simple word processing program that did everything I needed. When I did have it, I really did not need word and never even thought of getting it. Pardon the grouch, but it is getting to be a pain.---- |
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