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Getting rid of auto capital when starting new line?
Since I write a lot of poetry I want to get rid of the auto capitalize at
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Getting rid of auto capital when starting new line?
Word considers a new line as the start of a new paragraph and thus as a new
paragraph begins with a capital letter, autocorrect changes the lower case letter to upper case. There are three ways to deal with this 1. Turn off the autocorrect option 'capitalise first letter of sentences. 2. Press CTRL+Z to immediately undo the capitalisation as it occurs 3. (and probably the best in your circumstances) press Shift+Enter to create a line break within the current paragraph. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "poetlar" wrote in message ... Since I write a lot of poetry I want to get rid of the auto capitalize at start of new line of text. How do I do this? |
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Getting rid of auto capital when starting new line?
Word considers a new line as the start of a new paragraph and thus as a new paragraph begins with a capital letter, autocorrect changes the lower case letter to upper case. There are three ways to deal with this 1. Turn off the autocorrect option 'capitalise first letter of sentences. 2. Press CTRL+Z to immediately undo the capitalisation as it occurs 3. (and probably the best in your circumstances) press Shift+Enter to create a line break within the current paragraph. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "poetlar" wrote in message ... Since I write a lot of poetry I want to get rid of the auto capitalize at start of new line of text. How do I do this? |
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Getting rid of auto capital when starting new line?
To add to what Graham has said, #3 is definitely your best choice for the
very good reason that it not only eliminates the capitalization problem but also allows you to format your paragraph with some Spacing Before/After so that you don't have to press Enter twice to add space between stanzas. The best solution of all is to create a Poetry style that has the Spacing Before/After, as well as an appropriate left indent to visually center the lines if they are short. A bit more about the second part: Increasingly I see poetry centered on the page--that is, each line centered. This is NOT a good idea in most cases and makes the text more difficult to read. Instead, the entire block should be left-aligned but visually centered based on the average line length. This can be achieved with a left indent. There's no way to create a style that will be correct for every poem (unless they're very uniform), but you can start with a "pretty good" indent and then adjust the text manually for a given poem by selecting the text and dragging the indent marker on the ruler. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Word considers a new line as the start of a new paragraph and thus as a new paragraph begins with a capital letter, autocorrect changes the lower case letter to upper case. There are three ways to deal with this 1. Turn off the autocorrect option 'capitalise first letter of sentences. 2. Press CTRL+Z to immediately undo the capitalisation as it occurs 3. (and probably the best in your circumstances) press Shift+Enter to create a line break within the current paragraph. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "poetlar" wrote in message ... Since I write a lot of poetry I want to get rid of the auto capitalize at start of new line of text. How do I do this? |
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Getting rid of auto capital when starting new line?
To add to what Graham has said, #3 is definitely your best choice for the
very good reason that it not only eliminates the capitalization problem but also allows you to format your paragraph with some Spacing Before/After so that you don't have to press Enter twice to add space between stanzas. The best solution of all is to create a Poetry style that has the Spacing Before/After, as well as an appropriate left indent to visually center the lines if they are short. A bit more about the second part: Increasingly I see poetry centered on the page--that is, each line centered. This is NOT a good idea in most cases and makes the text more difficult to read. Instead, the entire block should be left-aligned but visually centered based on the average line length. This can be achieved with a left indent. There's no way to create a style that will be correct for every poem (unless they're very uniform), but you can start with a "pretty good" indent and then adjust the text manually for a given poem by selecting the text and dragging the indent marker on the ruler. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Word considers a new line as the start of a new paragraph and thus as a new paragraph begins with a capital letter, autocorrect changes the lower case letter to upper case. There are three ways to deal with this 1. Turn off the autocorrect option 'capitalise first letter of sentences. 2. Press CTRL+Z to immediately undo the capitalisation as it occurs 3. (and probably the best in your circumstances) press Shift+Enter to create a line break within the current paragraph. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "poetlar" wrote in message ... Since I write a lot of poetry I want to get rid of the auto capitalize at start of new line of text. How do I do this? |
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