Why indeed? Because apparently a lot of (vocal) users didn't always want to
capitalize items in a numbered list. When this was "fixed," it was broken
for running text as well. See €śWord does not capitalize the first letter of
a sentence€ť at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291538 (though it won't tell
you anything you don't already know--just confirm that this is "by design").
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I know Word won't auto-capitalize the first word of a new sentence when
the
previous sentence ends in a number, but can you get it to capitalize the
first word of each sentence in a numbered list? It works for bullets, so
why
not numbers?