Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated December 29, 2018)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2021
If you previously turned on the automatic captioning feature of Word, you can turn it off by following these steps:
Figure 1. The AutoCaption dialog box.
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