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I have to questions about capitalization in Word 2007. 1- is there any enablable function in Word to have it autocapitalize a word in a situation like this: ? "This is Gloopy. He is my frog." Then I want to insert the caret before the word "He" to insert some words in there, like to get to the following result: "This is Gloopy. But he is not my frog!" As you can see, the word "but" has been inserted after the period and before "He". However, in that case, we'll always have to manually decapitalize the "h" from "He". Can this be done automatically, so that Word will detect that a word has been inserted at the beginning of a sentence so the capital first letter will necessarily have to be decapitalized? 2- This one is more likely to have already been posted, so I apologise in advance, but a preliminary search for "autocapitalization" returned so many results, most of them about the natural automatic capitalization when we start a new sentence. Let's say I have a normal text with a story, typed in notepad. There are many characters in it, so their names should be in capitals. But, when I paste the plain text to Word to make the adjustments, then select all and go to Home, uppercase and lowercase, then "put the first letter of the sentence in capitals" (I'm not sure if the function names are exactly this since my Word is in Portuguese.) When that's done, it will rigourously do that, which means that the words already in capitals are decapitalized. Can we prevent that, so that we can put every sentence in the document beginning with a capital but not harming the words already in capitals? Thanks! |
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There is no automatic way to do this and it would be extremely difficult to
achieve by macro as you would have to define each valid word that is a proper noun and then differentiate between occasions when such a word is used as a simple noun (examples in your message being 'Home' and 'Word'). If you run the following Wildcard search on your message (pasted into Word) and set the option to highlight the found strings, you should begin to see the nature of the dilemma. [a-z] [A-Z][a-z0-9] -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Ross wrote: Hi I have to questions about capitalization in Word 2007. 1- is there any enablable function in Word to have it autocapitalize a word in a situation like this: ? "This is Gloopy. He is my frog." Then I want to insert the caret before the word "He" to insert some words in there, like to get to the following result: "This is Gloopy. But he is not my frog!" As you can see, the word "but" has been inserted after the period and before "He". However, in that case, we'll always have to manually decapitalize the "h" from "He". Can this be done automatically, so that Word will detect that a word has been inserted at the beginning of a sentence so the capital first letter will necessarily have to be decapitalized? 2- This one is more likely to have already been posted, so I apologise in advance, but a preliminary search for "autocapitalization" returned so many results, most of them about the natural automatic capitalization when we start a new sentence. Let's say I have a normal text with a story, typed in notepad. There are many characters in it, so their names should be in capitals. But, when I paste the plain text to Word to make the adjustments, then select all and go to Home, uppercase and lowercase, then "put the first letter of the sentence in capitals" (I'm not sure if the function names are exactly this since my Word is in Portuguese.) When that's done, it will rigourously do that, which means that the words already in capitals are decapitalized. Can we prevent that, so that we can put every sentence in the document beginning with a capital but not harming the words already in capitals? Thanks! |
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Problem (1) is easy. After you type "But," select the whole sentence
and click the Change Case button. To select the whole sentence (well, to select everything before the next period/full stop), press & hold the Ctrl key and click anywhere in the sentence you want to select. (The cursor can't already be in the sentence when you press Ctrl.) Problem (2), as Graham says, would be very difficult. On Aug 30, 1:36*am, Ross wrote: Hi I have to questions about capitalization in Word 2007. 1- is there any enablable function in Word to have it autocapitalize a word in a situation like this: ? "This is Gloopy. He is my frog." Then I want to insert the caret before the word "He" to insert some words in there, like to get to the following result: "This is Gloopy. But he is not my frog!" As you can see, the word "but" has been inserted after the period and before "He". However, in that case, we'll always have to manually decapitalize the "h" from "He". Can this be done automatically, so that Word will detect that a word has been inserted at the beginning of a sentence so the capital first letter will necessarily have to be decapitalized? 2- This one is more likely to have already been posted, so I apologise in advance, but a preliminary search for "autocapitalization" returned so many results, most of them about the natural automatic capitalization when we start a new sentence. Let's say I have a normal text with a story, typed in notepad. There are many characters in it, so their names should be in capitals. But, when I paste the plain text to Word to make the adjustments, then select all and go to Home, uppercase and lowercase, then "put the first letter of the sentence in capitals" (I'm not sure if the function names are exactly this since my Word is in Portuguese.) When that's done, it will rigourously do that, which means that the words already in capitals are decapitalized. Can we prevent that, so that we can put every sentence in the document beginning with a capital but not harming the words already in capitals? Thanks! |
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Yes, the cursor can already be in the sentence when you hold the Ctrl
key and click. Once the sentence is selected, you can also press Shift + F3 repeatedly to cycle among upper, title (sentence case), and lower cases rather than click the change case button. Another way to change "He" to lower case would be to press Ctrl + Shift + Right Arrow to select the next word, then Shift + F3 to change case -- a macro with these steps would make this faster. Cheryl On Aug 30, 5:26*am, "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Problem (1) is easy. After you type "But," select the whole sentence and click the Change Case button. To select the whole sentence (well, to select everything before the next period/full stop), press & hold the Ctrl key and click anywhere in the sentence you want to select. (The cursor can't already be in the sentence when you press Ctrl.) Problem (2), as Graham says, would be very difficult. |
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On Aug 30, 1:11*pm, Cheryl Flanders
wrote: Yes, the cursor can already be in the sentence when you hold the Ctrl key and click. * Then my Word must be broken, since that won't work for me! Once the sentence is selected, you can also press Shift + F3 repeatedly to cycle among upper, title (sentence case), and lower cases rather than click the change case button. *Another way to change "He" to lower case would be to press Ctrl + Shift + Right Arrow to select the next word, then Shift + F3 to change case -- a macro with these steps would make this faster. Cheryl On Aug 30, 5:26*am, "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Problem (1) is easy. After you type "But," select the whole sentence and click the Change Case button. To select the whole sentence (well, to select everything before the next period/full stop), press & hold the Ctrl key and click anywhere in the sentence you want to select. (The cursor can't already be in the sentence when you press Ctrl.) Problem (2), as Graham says, would be very difficult.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Thanks for your tips gentlemen! And sorry for the late response. |
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