Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016. If you are using an earlier version (Word 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Word, click here: Turning Off Capital Corrections.
Word tries its level best to be a good guesser at what you are attempting to do. For instance, as you are typing along, if you type a word where the first two letters are uppercase, and the next letter is lowercase, Word will figure you just have slow fingers and didn't release the Shift key in time to make the second letter lowercase. So, it dutifully changes the second letter to lowercase to help you out. For instance, the word PLace becomes Place.
There are some situations where this behavior can be bothersome, however. For instance, you may have a company or product name in which the first two letters are always capitalized, such as INtec or MYphone. In these cases, Word also tries to do its magic and change the capitalization, which can cause no end to proofreading passes and related problems.
One solution to this problem is to turn off the correction that Word does to what you type. (At least for this particular capitalization issue.) Here's how you do it:
Figure 1. The AutoCorrect tab of the AutoCorrect dialog box.
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2016-06-06 01:28:01
Loes
Since this solution affects every instance of two capitals I would prefer to add an exception and leave the checkbox checked.
Then certain combinations of two capitals can be left alone while all other (unintented) combinations will be corrected.
2016-06-05 03:49:02
eduard alf
It is probably best to turn off the autocorrect completely. It forces you to actually read your doc before sending it out.
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