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Wally - 12 Feb 2004 11:33 GMT

I have Win XP home small office edition (2002). I have
copied and pasted various documents from email or from a
web page into a new word page and when I do, the first
word of each sentence in each new line shows a red line
under it indicating an error. I click on the word and the
drop down box says the word should be capatlized (when it
shouldn't). I go to the format menu, auto correct and
the "Capitalize first letter of sentence is unchecked".
Thanks for any help.

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Peter Miller - 13 Feb 2004 17:50 GMT

In MS Word It will recognize the first word as wrong if
it is not capitalized. It has no way of knowing that you
don't want it capitalized. By unchecking the "Capitalize
First Letter" box in auto correct simply means that word
will not automatically correct the problem on it's own.
However it will still recognize the word as being spelled
wrong. The easiest way to get rid of it in a document is
run spell check and the un-capitalized word it comes to
click "ignore rule."

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>I have Win XP home small office edition (2002). I have
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- 13 Feb 2004 22:07 GMT

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>In MS Word It will recognize the first word as wrong if
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Debbie Berkley [MSFT] - 13 Feb 2004 23:39 GMT

Also, possibly whoever typed these documents originally was hitting a carriage return at the end of each
line, just like you would in a typewriter. Otherwise, Word should not try to capitalize the first word in
every line, but only the first word in every sentence, and only, as Peter Miller says below, if you have the
box checked for capitalization of the first word of the sentence in Autocorrect Options. If people are doing
that, and you have any input into their typing methods, it would be a good idea to train them not to do it
any more.

Debbie

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Deborah Milam Berkley
Microsoft Natural Language Group

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wally - 14 Feb 2004 16:02 GMT

Thanks for your help.

>-----Original Message-----
>Also, possibly whoever typed these documents originally was hitting a carriage return at the end of each
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>Deborah Milam Berkley
>Microsoft Natural Language Group

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