Re: Auto Capitalization

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I have the same issue with touch-typing. I don't look at the keyboard, but I do look at the typing I'm producing (on screen now, formerly on paper with a typewriter). Although I can type perfectly well without looking at the screen (while looking at copy), it makes me very nervous for some reason.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"The DixieFlatline" <TheDixieFlatline@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:7E3390C9-87BD-4511-A324-39A14C70E074@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Half 'n' half. for most oft the time I don't have to look at the keyboard,
but long-ingrained habit means that I tend to. It does tend to slow me down a
bit when copying, but I seem to cope.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

I've seen two-finger "hunt and peck" typists (journalists, especially) who
could type that way faster than I can touch-type, though if you have to look
at the keyboard (and most accomplished hunt-and-peckers don't), then you're
limited to composing rather than typing from handwritten or printed copy.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"The DixieFlatline" <TheDixieFlatline@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:DB6F924B-2553-4DEE-A952-195B2FA8C329@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Eastern? I think not. I'm a tad over 100 miles west of Greenwich, a bit
> more
> by road. The Dixie Flattline is a character in Neuromancer by William
> Gibson.
> To cut a long story short, he is dead and lives only in a computer. I > was
> house-bound for a fair while and almost lived on the internet, so it
> seemed
> an appropriate nickname.
>
> Guess you're right about the disadvantages outweighing the advantages > re:
> the speech mark thing.
>
> Yes, I do manage to stumble along with ten fingers (is "stumble the > right
> word, when applied to fingers? hmm...) but as soon as I need to pick up
> the
> pace, or get interested in what I'm doing, I forget and regress to the
> faster
> two fingers. Ah well, Any Road ... as George Harrison might have said.
>
> "Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
>
>> On Jul 15, 5:09 am, The DixieFlatline
>> <TheDixieFlatl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > My schooling was many years ago, but I did come away with an o-level >> > in
>>
>> Aha! You're in the Eastern Hemisphere! (Then why call yourself
>> "Dixie"?)
>>
>> > English Language. One thing we were taught was that there's times >> > and
>> > places
>> > when absolutely correct speech is needed, and others when insistance >> > on
>> > it
>> > was merely pedantry. (Polite cough.)
>>
>> It's odd to have encountered that enlightened attitude "many years
>> ago" -- unless your use of "many" is a lot smaller than mine! There
>> was a huge furore over here when the "descriptivist" Third
>> International Dictionary was publlished by Merriam-Webster in 1961.
>>
>> > Yes, I know there's cases where it is/isn't capitalized, but it's
>> > _always_
>> > capitalized after a full stop, exclamation- or question-mark, which >> > is
>> > why I
>> > wondered whether I'd missed something in settings to turn it on; it
>> > seemed a
>> > small point.
>>
>> It's easier to type a capital than to uncapitalize a wrongly
>> capitalized letter.
>>
>> > I've tried to learn the old ten-finger business, but I'm afraid too
>> > many
>> > years of bad habits have got in the way. My ten finger typing is >> > ever
>> > worse,
>> > and slower than, my two finger typing lol
>>
>> It just takes a little practice (using basic exercises).
>>
>> > "Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
>> > > Curious. When and where was your school?
>> >
>> > > I can certainly come up with examples where the first word inside >> > > the
>> > > quotation marks is capitalized even if the quotation doesn't >> > > follow a
>> > > period (or question mark or exclamation point).
>> >
>> > > It really isn't hard to tearn to type with ten fingers. Any
>> > > secondhand
>> > > bookstore will have old typing manuals (you don't need a computer
>> > > program!), and if you practice the first few lessons for maybe 20
>> > > minutes a day, over a week or so, you'll be amazed what you can
>> > > accomplish. (Don't be frightened by how thick the book is -- >> > > mostly
>> > > they're teaching secretaries how to format business letters and
>> > > such.)
>> >
>> > > On Jul 14, 10:02 pm, The DixieFlatline
>> > > <TheDixieFlatl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > > > If it follows a full stop, it's a new sentence. I know it's only >> > > > a
>> > > > slight
>> > > > annoyance, but with my slow two-fingered typing any aid is a
>> > > > comfort. BTW I
>> > > > was taught at school that the terms "speech mark" and "quotation
>> > > > mark" are
>> > > > interchangeable; one is technical usage, the other more >> > > > informal.
>> >
>> > > > "Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
>> > > > > "It would be impossible," Peter might have written, "for a >> > > > > mere
>> > > > > word
>> > > > > processing program to determine when and when not to >> > > > > capitalize a
>> > > > > letter after a quotation mark." I used the word "impossible" >> > > > > once
>> > > > > in
>> > > > > that sentence.
>> >
>> > > > > On Jul 14, 8:01 am, "Stefan Blom"
>> > > > > <StefanB...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > > > > > The auto capitalization (apparently) cannot deal with all
>> > > > > > possible
>> > > > > > situations. But, as Peter wrote, since you have to press >> > > > > > Shift
>> > > > > > anyway to
>> > > > > > insert the quotation mark, manual capitalization will be >> > > > > > very
>> > > > > > easy in this
>> > > > > > case.
>> >
>> > > > > > --
>> > > > > > Stefan Blom
>> > > > > > Microsoft Word MVP
>> >
>> > > > > > "The DixieFlatline" <The
>> > > > > > DixieFlatl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>> > > > > > messagenews:B1C3CA87-F113-4746-829F-3F830071669A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >
>> > > > > > > I've noticed that in Word, if a sentence starts with a >> > > > > > > speech
>> > > > > > > mark, ie
>> > > > > > > "How
>> > > > > > > are you?" Word will not capitalize the first letter of >> > > > > > > the
>> > > > > > > sentence. Is
>> > > > > > > there a way to make it do so?---
>>




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