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General => Technical Help => Topic started by: Claire64 on Saturday 16 February 19 21:51 GMT (UK)
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I thought I was quite an expert with Word but it's driving me INSANE!!
How can I stop it turning a surname I have typed in capitals into lowercase? It usually, but not always, keeps the forename in capitals but then turns the surname from capitals to lowercase(keeping the first letter as a capital). Sometimes it turns both into lowercase and I have to go back and change them back to capitals
I can type War and Peace in capitals if I want but as soons as I type a name, Word steps in and changes it to lowercase.
I can't find it in proofing tools
Windows 10 laptop running the latest version of Word.
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Are you using columns or just plain text? I've just typed in JOHN BROWN and it's stayed as is.
Gadget
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Just plain text. I'm part of my brother's Microsoft group and none of theirs does it either!
It's highly annoying!
I'm typing up some family history and spending more time going back and correcting stuff than actually typing it (so it seems!)
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Have you tried
Open Microsoft Word.
Click the File tab.
Click on Options.
In the Word Options window, click the Proofing option.
Click the AutoCorrect Options button.
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Yes, but there's nothing that works.
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This may not be what you're doing but I touch type and occasionally press the Cap Lock instead of 'a'.
Could that possibly be the problem :-\
Add - so Cap Lock and Upper case key gives aaaa instead of AAAA
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Have you got a hammer? ;D
Not being a Word user, can't offer further advice!
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This may not be what you're doing but I touch type and occasionally press the Cap Lock instead of 'a'.
Could that possibly be the problem :-\
Add - so Cap Lock and Upper case key gives aaaa instead of AAAA
just tried it and watched what I am doing. not that.
I might have seen the light...it's only taken me all day!! I've just typed a load of surnames and it's only the ones on my family tree that are doing it. I bet it's my autocorrect...I've asked it to alter, say, pearson to Pearson, but I bet it's decided to alter PEARSON to Pearson.
So...
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Have you got a hammer? ;D
Not being a Word user, can't offer further advice!
haha, I am not allowed a hammer after what I did to the printer!!! >:(
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Here's something about case changes that might help
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/change-the-capitalization-or-case-of-text-1d86cf80-fbef-4380-8d6f-59a6b77db749
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This may not be what you're doing but I touch type and occasionally press the Cap Lock instead of 'a'.
Could that possibly be the problem :-\
Add - so Cap Lock and Upper case key gives aaaa instead of AAAA
just tried it and watched what I am doing. not that.
I might have seen the light...it's only taken me all day!! I've just typed a load of surnames and it's only the ones on my family tree that are doing it. I bet it's my autocorrect...I've asked it to alter, say, pearson to Pearson, but I bet it's decided to alter PEARSON to Pearson.
So...
So... looks like you will need to add PEARSON to your Personal Dictionary
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So... looks like you will need to add PEARSON to your Personal Dictionary
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I have and it's still altering it. I'm fed up now, off to bed!! Thanks all
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Have you still got Correct Two Initial CApitals ticked??
If you have then you're telling computer to correct words that have 2 or more than 2 Capital letters in them..... then it will!
Trouble with that is if you type LOndon in a document it won't correct it.....
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Have you still got Correct Two Initial CApitals ticked??
If you have then you're telling computer to correct words that have 2 or more than 2 Capital letters in them..... then it will!
Trouble with that is if you type LOndon in a document it won't correct it.....
That doesn't work either!
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If all else fails, remember that you can get Word to adjust the case without retyping.
Select the text, then press shift-F3.
This cycles from "hello world" to "Hello World" to "HELLO WORLD".
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I turned off ALL the auto-correct stuff years ago! I know what I want to type!
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I turned off ALL the auto-correct stuff years ago! I know what I want to type!
I set it up that way to save me keep pressing the Shift button for all the surnames. Might just have to turn it back again!!
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If one name is formatted correctly, you can use Format Painter and apply it to ones you want to have same Format after you enter all the names.
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If all else fails, remember that you can get Word to adjust the case without retyping.
Select the text, then press shift-F3.
This cycles from "hello world" to "Hello World" to "HELLO WORLD".
Ooo, I like that! Any more helpful hints, andrewalston?
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Someone mentioned Ctrl Z, which you can use straight after it's corrected something you didn't want correcting. I use it in card games when I cheat! but it undos the last action without highlighting.
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Have you tried...
If one name is formatted correctly, you can use Format Painter and apply it to ones you want to have same Format after you enter all the names.
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Ooo, I like that! Any more helpful hints, andrewalston?
There are loads of functions accessible directly from the keyboard, and despite the replacement of the sensible menus by a "ribbon" a few versions ago, the old keystrokes still work, so we are not forced to use a mouse, providing you know what they are.
The best way to work out what might be useful to YOU is to press F1 for Help, then search for "Keyboard Shortcuts".
There is quite a list, organised by subject. Browse down and get the feel for what is there. Once your brain knows it's possible, you can always press F1 when you need things and remind yourself then.
Some of the functionality is repeated elsewhere, for example You can use Shift-F12 to save the current document, but it's more useful to remember Ctrl-S, which works in a huge number of programs.
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Thank you andrewalston, I shall have a browse and learn something new.