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How do I exclude a word from always capitalized words?
I am using the word 'meta' in my document. For reasons unknown to me,
everytime I do a grammar check, Word flags 'meta' for capitalization. The help for this begins with 'Some words are always capitalized'. Meta should not be one of those words. I don't want to turn the grammar check feature off, and I don't want to ignore this rule, I only want to exclude 'meta' from the words that must always be capitalized. Cna anyone help? |
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FormatAuto correct Options Auto correctexceptions other corrections and
add meta as "do not correct." "Brian" wrote: I am using the word 'meta' in my document. For reasons unknown to me, everytime I do a grammar check, Word flags 'meta' for capitalization. The help for this begins with 'Some words are always capitalized'. Meta should not be one of those words. I don't want to turn the grammar check feature off, and I don't want to ignore this rule, I only want to exclude 'meta' from the words that must always be capitalized. Cna anyone help? |
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Thanks for the quick response Mary. Unfortunately I already added meta to
that list and it made no difference. You can demonstrate this for yourself by adding meta to the list as you described, then creating a new document and typing 'This is my test of the word meta. Will it underline?' Meta will be underlined in green and will come up as a capitalization grammar exception. "Mary" wrote: FormatAuto correct Options Auto correctexceptions other corrections and add meta as "do not correct." "Brian" wrote: I am using the word 'meta' in my document. For reasons unknown to me, everytime I do a grammar check, Word flags 'meta' for capitalization. The help for this begins with 'Some words are always capitalized'. Meta should not be one of those words. I don't want to turn the grammar check feature off, and I don't want to ignore this rule, I only want to exclude 'meta' from the words that must always be capitalized. Cna anyone help? |
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Try adding "meta" (uncapitalized) to your custom dictionary.
-- 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. "Brian" wrote in message ... Thanks for the quick response Mary. Unfortunately I already added meta to that list and it made no difference. You can demonstrate this for yourself by adding meta to the list as you described, then creating a new document and typing 'This is my test of the word meta. Will it underline?' Meta will be underlined in green and will come up as a capitalization grammar exception. "Mary" wrote: FormatAuto correct Options Auto correctexceptions other corrections and add meta as "do not correct." "Brian" wrote: I am using the word 'meta' in my document. For reasons unknown to me, everytime I do a grammar check, Word flags 'meta' for capitalization. The help for this begins with 'Some words are always capitalized'. Meta should not be one of those words. I don't want to turn the grammar check feature off, and I don't want to ignore this rule, I only want to exclude 'meta' from the words that must always be capitalized. Cna anyone help? |
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Suzanne,
Adding 'meta' to the custom dictionary was the first thing I tried. It makes no difference. 'meta' is in both my custom dictionary and my list of autocorrect words to ignore. My suspicion is that this capitalization feature of Word does not use either list. The curious thing is that despite extensive searching, I have not been able to find mention of this 'some words must always be capitalized' feature in the Microsoft Help or on their web site. I also tried calling a professional PC help service: they can easily replicate the problem, but they have no way of removing the specific word. Their only suggestion was to turn the grammar check feature off. -Brian -Brian "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Try adding "meta" (uncapitalized) to your custom dictionary. -- 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. "Brian" wrote in message ... Thanks for the quick response Mary. Unfortunately I already added meta to that list and it made no difference. You can demonstrate this for yourself by adding meta to the list as you described, then creating a new document and typing 'This is my test of the word meta. Will it underline?' Meta will be underlined in green and will come up as a capitalization grammar exception. "Mary" wrote: FormatAuto correct Options Auto correctexceptions other corrections and add meta as "do not correct." "Brian" wrote: I am using the word 'meta' in my document. For reasons unknown to me, everytime I do a grammar check, Word flags 'meta' for capitalization. The help for this begins with 'Some words are always capitalized'. Meta should not be one of those words. I don't want to turn the grammar check feature off, and I don't want to ignore this rule, I only want to exclude 'meta' from the words that must always be capitalized. Cna anyone help? |
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The AutoCorrect setting won't help because it specifies words not to add
capitalization *after.* For example, unless you enter "Mr." as an exception to sentence capitalization, you'll get "and" capitalized when you type "Mr. and Mrs." There is no setting that governs capitalization of specific words. I don't use the Word grammar checker (I'm confident of my grammar and find it more of a nuisance than a help), but I've never heard of the message you cite, either, and I don't find anything about it in the KB. Do you have any add-ins that might be responsible? I suppose you could disable the "capitalization" setting in the Spelling & Grammar Options. Beyond that, I don't know what to suggest. -- 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. "Brian" wrote in message news Suzanne, Adding 'meta' to the custom dictionary was the first thing I tried. It makes no difference. 'meta' is in both my custom dictionary and my list of autocorrect words to ignore. My suspicion is that this capitalization feature of Word does not use either list. The curious thing is that despite extensive searching, I have not been able to find mention of this 'some words must always be capitalized' feature in the Microsoft Help or on their web site. I also tried calling a professional PC help service: they can easily replicate the problem, but they have no way of removing the specific word. Their only suggestion was to turn the grammar check feature off. -Brian -Brian "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Try adding "meta" (uncapitalized) to your custom dictionary. -- 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. "Brian" wrote in message ... Thanks for the quick response Mary. Unfortunately I already added meta to that list and it made no difference. You can demonstrate this for yourself by adding meta to the list as you described, then creating a new document and typing 'This is my test of the word meta. Will it underline?' Meta will be underlined in green and will come up as a capitalization grammar exception. "Mary" wrote: FormatAuto correct Options Auto correctexceptions other corrections and add meta as "do not correct." "Brian" wrote: I am using the word 'meta' in my document. For reasons unknown to me, everytime I do a grammar check, Word flags 'meta' for capitalization. The help for this begins with 'Some words are always capitalized'. Meta should not be one of those words. I don't want to turn the grammar check feature off, and I don't want to ignore this rule, I only want to exclude 'meta' from the words that must always be capitalized. Cna anyone help? |
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Thanks for your help Suzanne. Do you know of a way to report this
undocumented feature (bug) to Microsoft? As I stated in an earlier post to this thread, the error is readily reproducible. Just use meta in any sentence, such as this one. I do not have any add-ins to Microsoft Word, and the professional PC help company I called reproduced the problem on their computers -Brian "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The AutoCorrect setting won't help because it specifies words not to add capitalization *after.* For example, unless you enter "Mr." as an exception to sentence capitalization, you'll get "and" capitalized when you type "Mr. and Mrs." There is no setting that governs capitalization of specific words. I don't use the Word grammar checker (I'm confident of my grammar and find it more of a nuisance than a help), but I've never heard of the message you cite, either, and I don't find anything about it in the KB. Do you have any add-ins that might be responsible? I suppose you could disable the "capitalization" setting in the Spelling & Grammar Options. Beyond that, I don't know what to suggest. -- 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. "Brian" wrote in message news Suzanne, Adding 'meta' to the custom dictionary was the first thing I tried. It makes no difference. 'meta' is in both my custom dictionary and my list of autocorrect words to ignore. My suspicion is that this capitalization feature of Word does not use either list. The curious thing is that despite extensive searching, I have not been able to find mention of this 'some words must always be capitalized' feature in the Microsoft Help or on their web site. I also tried calling a professional PC help service: they can easily replicate the problem, but they have no way of removing the specific word. Their only suggestion was to turn the grammar check feature off. -Brian -Brian "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Try adding "meta" (uncapitalized) to your custom dictionary. -- 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. "Brian" wrote in message ... Thanks for the quick response Mary. Unfortunately I already added meta to that list and it made no difference. You can demonstrate this for yourself by adding meta to the list as you described, then creating a new document and typing 'This is my test of the word meta. Will it underline?' Meta will be underlined in green and will come up as a capitalization grammar exception. "Mary" wrote: FormatAuto correct Options Auto correctexceptions other corrections and add meta as "do not correct." "Brian" wrote: I am using the word 'meta' in my document. For reasons unknown to me, everytime I do a grammar check, Word flags 'meta' for capitalization. The help for this begins with 'Some words are always capitalized'. Meta should not be one of those words. I don't want to turn the grammar check feature off, and I don't want to ignore this rule, I only want to exclude 'meta' from the words that must always be capitalized. Cna anyone help? |
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Hi Brian,
What version of Word and what language is set for the text where you're using meta? Do you have a sample of the context in which you're using the term? I wasn't able to duplicate the problem in Word by copying and pasting the text from your original posted message. If you open your custom dictionary file from Tools=Options= Spelling and Grammar and check your autocorrect lists as well do the terms Meta or meta appear there? ======= "Brian" wrote in message news Suzanne, Adding 'meta' to the custom dictionary was the first thing I tried. It makes no difference. 'meta' is in both my custom dictionary and my list of autocorrect words to ignore. My suspicion is that this capitalization feature of Word does not use either list. The curious thing is that despite extensive searching, I have not been able to find mention of this 'some words must always be capitalized' feature in the Microsoft Help or on their web site. I also tried calling a professional PC help service: they can easily replicate the problem, but they have no way of removing the specific word. Their only suggestion was to turn the grammar check feature off. -Brian |
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I can reproduce this. I don't get any explanation--just the suggestion of
Meta for meta. Where do you see the message about some words having to be capitalized? -- 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. "Brian" wrote in message ... Thanks for your help Suzanne. Do you know of a way to report this undocumented feature (bug) to Microsoft? As I stated in an earlier post to this thread, the error is readily reproducible. Just use meta in any sentence, such as this one. I do not have any add-ins to Microsoft Word, and the professional PC help company I called reproduced the problem on their computers -Brian "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The AutoCorrect setting won't help because it specifies words not to add capitalization *after.* For example, unless you enter "Mr." as an exception to sentence capitalization, you'll get "and" capitalized when you type "Mr. and Mrs." There is no setting that governs capitalization of specific words. I don't use the Word grammar checker (I'm confident of my grammar and find it more of a nuisance than a help), but I've never heard of the message you cite, either, and I don't find anything about it in the KB. Do you have any add-ins that might be responsible? I suppose you could disable the "capitalization" setting in the Spelling & Grammar Options. Beyond that, I don't know what to suggest. -- 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. "Brian" wrote in message news Suzanne, Adding 'meta' to the custom dictionary was the first thing I tried. It makes no difference. 'meta' is in both my custom dictionary and my list of autocorrect words to ignore. My suspicion is that this capitalization feature of Word does not use either list. The curious thing is that despite extensive searching, I have not been able to find mention of this 'some words must always be capitalized' feature in the Microsoft Help or on their web site. I also tried calling a professional PC help service: they can easily replicate the problem, but they have no way of removing the specific word. Their only suggestion was to turn the grammar check feature off. -Brian -Brian "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Try adding "meta" (uncapitalized) to your custom dictionary. -- 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. "Brian" wrote in message ... Thanks for the quick response Mary. Unfortunately I already added meta to that list and it made no difference. You can demonstrate this for yourself by adding meta to the list as you described, then creating a new document and typing 'This is my test of the word meta. Will it underline?' Meta will be underlined in green and will come up as a capitalization grammar exception. "Mary" wrote: FormatAuto correct Options Auto correctexceptions other corrections and add meta as "do not correct." "Brian" wrote: I am using the word 'meta' in my document. For reasons unknown to me, everytime I do a grammar check, Word flags 'meta' for capitalization. The help for this begins with 'Some words are always capitalized'. Meta should not be one of those words. I don't want to turn the grammar check feature off, and I don't want to ignore this rule, I only want to exclude 'meta' from the words that must always be capitalized. Cna anyone help? |
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