Re: Autocorrect initial capital and date autotext
- From: "Ricki Miles" <rickimiles@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:59:39 -0500
Thank you so much for your response. I won't waste any more time on these
issues - but I do wonder why some people do not get that date autotext and
some do.....
Thanks,
Ricki
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Put both down to Word annoyances that you can't do anything about so you
> might as well not waste energy trying.
>
> The latter is one that some unfortunate users are plagued with and others
> not (I'm one of the lucky ones). The only workarounds are to (a) press
> Spacebar or Escape before pressing Enter or Tab when you get the
> AutoComplete tip or (b) set up templates with a date field (CREATEDATE,
> usually) already in them so that you don't have to type the date.
>
> As for the former, it is "by design" (and you don't need to point out to
me
> what a dumb design this is). See ?Word does not capitalize the first
letter
> of a sentence? at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291538. The best I can
> surmise, many users complained about numbered lists being capitalized even
> when they didn't want them to be. So Word's designers were told to create
an
> exception for this. Unfortunately, the exception (which some users don't
> like in the first place) also extends to text following numbers in running
> text, not just autonumbered lists.
>
> --
> Suzanne S. Barnhill
> Microsoft MVP (Word)
> Words into Type
> Fairhope, Alabama USA
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> "Ricki Miles" <rickimiles@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > I am working in Word 2003. I have two questions:
> >
> > When I type a paragraph such as "This happened in the first quarter of
> 2005.
> > A review will follow." , even though I have "Capitalize first letter of
> > sentences" set to happen in Autocorrect, the letter "a" in the second
> > sentence does not capitalize. There is no exception listed for numbers
in
> > my Exceptions list.
> >
> > When I type "April 13, 2005" as soon as I type the "5" of 2005, I get an
> > autotext completion showing on screen with 2005-04-13(Press Enter to
> > insert )- which I do not want. Is there any way to eliminate just this
> one
> > autotext?
> >
> > Thanks very much,
> >
> > Ricki
> >
> >
>
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