Friends, occasionally I'd like to add an item to AutoText which in use may
sometimes use an initial capital and sometimes will not. I can easily add
one or the other to the AutoText list. But I am then prevented from adding
the other, and when I use the item in a document Word replaces the
capitalization of what I have typed with the lower case of the AutoText
item.

Is there a way to control the capitalization of AutoText items?

--

Bob Boudewyns

If you add the word in lowercase, then the result will follow your
formatting of the entry name. That is, if you use an initial cap or all caps
when typing the entry name, the entry will be inserted with an initial cap
or all caps.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Bob Boudewyns" wrote in message
...
Friends, occasionally I'd like to add an item to AutoText which in use may
sometimes use an initial capital and sometimes will not. I can easily add
one or the other to the AutoText list. But I am then prevented from adding
the other, and when I use the item in a document Word replaces the
capitalization of what I have typed with the lower case of the AutoText
item.

Is there a way to control the capitalization of AutoText items?

--

Bob Boudewyns

Suzanne, thanks for your response! And I believe you are describing what
should happen, but ...

As an example, I have added "simplicity" to AutoText. When I begin to type
in a document "Simp" the pop up window offers to replace it and I press
enter and it is replaced with "simplicity" not "Simplicity."

Any idea what is going on? Do I misunderstand something?

--

Bob Boudewyns


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
| If you add the word in lowercase, then the result will follow your
| formatting of the entry name. That is, if you use an initial cap or all
caps
| when typing the entry name, the entry will be inserted with an initial cap
| or all caps.
|
| --
| Suzanne S. Barnhill
| Microsoft MVP (Word)
| Words into Type
| Fairhope, Alabama USA
| Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
| Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
| all may benefit.
|
| "Bob Boudewyns" wrote in message
| ...
| Friends, occasionally I'd like to add an item to AutoText which in use
may
| sometimes use an initial capital and sometimes will not. I can easily
add
| one or the other to the AutoText list. But I am then prevented from
adding
| the other, and when I use the item in a document Word replaces the
| capitalization of what I have typed with the lower case of the AutoText
| item.
|
| Is there a way to control the capitalization of AutoText items?
|
| --
|
| Bob Boudewyns
|
|
|
|

I'm beginning to think that the caps rule does not work with AutoText, but
that it does with AutoCorrect! For example, if I enter an auto correct
keyword of simp and a correction of simplicity then whatever format of caps
I select for typing simp (Simp; SIMP) that is the format provided of the
replacement text. I suspect I should use AutoCorrect for the purpose I am
seeking.

--

Bob Boudewyns


"Bob Boudewyns" wrote in message
...
| Suzanne, thanks for your response! And I believe you are describing what
| should happen, but ...
|
| As an example, I have added "simplicity" to AutoText. When I begin to type
| in a document "Simp" the pop up window offers to replace it and I press
| enter and it is replaced with "simplicity" not "Simplicity."
|
| Any idea what is going on? Do I misunderstand something?
|
| --
|
| Bob Boudewyns
|
|
| "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
| ...
|| If you add the word in lowercase, then the result will follow your
|| formatting of the entry name. That is, if you use an initial cap or all
| caps
|| when typing the entry name, the entry will be inserted with an initial
cap
|| or all caps.
||
|| --
|| Suzanne S. Barnhill
|| Microsoft MVP (Word)
|| Words into Type
|| Fairhope, Alabama USA
|| Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
|| Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
| so
|| all may benefit.
||
|| "Bob Boudewyns" wrote in message
|| ...
|| Friends, occasionally I'd like to add an item to AutoText which in use
| may
|| sometimes use an initial capital and sometimes will not. I can easily
| add
|| one or the other to the AutoText list. But I am then prevented from
| adding
|| the other, and when I use the item in a document Word replaces the
|| capitalization of what I have typed with the lower case of the AutoText
|| item.
||
|| Is there a way to control the capitalization of AutoText items?
||
|| --
||
|| Bob Boudewyns
||
||
||
||
|
|

The rule I stated was indeed for AutoCorrect. I'm sorry I misled you--missed
that you were using AutoText.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Bob Boudewyns" wrote in message
...
I'm beginning to think that the caps rule does not work with AutoText, but
that it does with AutoCorrect! For example, if I enter an auto correct
keyword of simp and a correction of simplicity then whatever format of
caps
I select for typing simp (Simp; SIMP) that is the format provided of the
replacement text. I suspect I should use AutoCorrect for the purpose I am
seeking.

--

Bob Boudewyns


"Bob Boudewyns" wrote in message
...
| Suzanne, thanks for your response! And I believe you are describing what
| should happen, but ...
|
| As an example, I have added "simplicity" to AutoText. When I begin to
type
| in a document "Simp" the pop up window offers to replace it and I press
| enter and it is replaced with "simplicity" not "Simplicity."
|
| Any idea what is going on? Do I misunderstand something?
|
| --
|
| Bob Boudewyns
|
|
| "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
| ...
|| If you add the word in lowercase, then the result will follow your
|| formatting of the entry name. That is, if you use an initial cap or all
| caps
|| when typing the entry name, the entry will be inserted with an initial
cap
|| or all caps.
||
|| --
|| Suzanne S. Barnhill
|| Microsoft MVP (Word)
|| Words into Type
|| Fairhope, Alabama USA
|| Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
|| Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup
| so
|| all may benefit.
||
|| "Bob Boudewyns" wrote in message
|| ...
|| Friends, occasionally I'd like to add an item to AutoText which in
use
| may
|| sometimes use an initial capital and sometimes will not. I can easily
| add
|| one or the other to the AutoText list. But I am then prevented from
| adding
|| the other, and when I use the item in a document Word replaces the
|| capitalization of what I have typed with the lower case of the
AutoText
|| item.
||
|| Is there a way to control the capitalization of AutoText items?
||
|| --
||
|| Bob Boudewyns
||
||
||
||
|
|