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Enable/Disable Auto Capitalization in Word 2016 & 2013

Enable/Disable Auto Capitalization in Word 2016 & 2013

By Mitch Bartlett 20 Comments

I don’t like Microsoft Word 2016 or 2013 telling me what to do. It auto-capitalizes things that I don’t want it to. I can capitalize my own work thank you! You can change Word’s Auto Capitalization settings to your liking by performing these steps.

  1. While working in Word, select the “File” menu and choose “Options“.
    Word 2016 Options button
  2. Select “Proofing” and then select the “AutoCorrect Options…” button.
    Word 2013 Autocorrect Options button
  3. Here you can check the boxes to customize what you want Word to automatically capitalize.
    • Correct Two Initial Capitals
    • Capitalize first letter of sentences
    • Capitalize first letter of table cells
    • Capitalize names of days
    • Correct accidental usage of caps lock key
      You may also set Exceptions if you don’t want these settings to apply to certain words.
      Word 2016 Autocorrect Options button
  4. Select “OK“, then “OK” again when you are done.

These settings are also located other Office applications such as Excel and PowerPoint.

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Filed Under: Office Tagged With: Word 2013, Word 2016

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Comments

  1. Mari says

    November 30, 2020 at 11:52 pm

    It worked, thanks a ton, it saves lot of time!

  2. Kanha says

    January 8, 2020 at 12:48 am

    Thanks sir it is very use full to us

  3. Karin Jokisch says

    June 1, 2019 at 10:43 pm

    I don’t have “proofing’ so couldn’t follow any other steps

  4. Issy says

    October 18, 2018 at 7:07 pm

    I have a name that I use often in my manuscript, but when I type it out lower case (I’m usually typing quickly) it sometimes changes it as its supposed to but sometimes doesn’t and then the stupid red squiggly line appears. This is quite annoying especially since this is my first draft and I don’t like to disrupt my “flow”. Is there a way I can fix this? I already have it set up to change it- it just doesn’t change it all the time, just occasionally. Is this a glitch or something?

  5. Miller says

    September 18, 2018 at 9:53 am

    I really appreciate it! Thank you so much!

  6. Jim RIDER says

    July 13, 2018 at 9:10 am

    I checked out the Auto Correct options but there is nothing there about
    Capitalizing the first
    Word in each line. This is not required and very annoying when you are proof reading a book !

    This must be an option somewhere but where?
    Jim

  7. Karla Gabel says

    May 3, 2018 at 6:53 am

    This post seems to confirm that the autocorrect options in Office 2016 are not working properly. I’m working on a document where EVERYTHING is in lower case. I’ve turned off all autocorrect options and it’s still capitalizing proper names and nouns. Ugh! It’s got to be a bug. Please make it stop!

  8. Stefano says

    March 15, 2018 at 3:08 am

    Good it’s work but after a restar i lost these settings!!!

    Do you know how to set as Default value?

  9. Greg says

    March 8, 2018 at 9:52 am

    What if I don’t want it to auto-capitalize ANYTHING? Proper nouns in general, Christmas for example, that I choose not to capitalize in a particular context for my own reasons.

  10. Lion III says

    January 15, 2018 at 11:22 am

    Thank you

  11. Jane Miller says

    December 15, 2017 at 12:35 pm

    The posts have helped confirm that there IS a bug in the “auto correct” for Office 2016. The auto correct works when it feel like it, but there is definitely a problem in this newer version that hopefully will be fixed.

  12. Timothy Takemoto timtak says

    December 10, 2017 at 10:12 pm

    I can prevent word from auto-capitalizing sentences but if I want to use CamelCase or at least capitals at the end of wordS (because I am a teacher and want to show where I have corrected) then I seem to need to turn off all auto correction.

  13. Ioana Virginia Bolba says

    November 25, 2017 at 4:18 am

    In my Word, i after – was always typed I (Capital i). I followed your suggestions and it functions correctly now. Than you.

  14. BD says

    September 7, 2017 at 10:17 am

    Unfortunately this feature doesn’t work in 2016. It’s a software bug that apparently takes a significant effort to resolve and requires full administrator rights. This makes it incredibly impractical for a very large number of users. This should be fixed quickly by Microsoft.

  15. David says

    June 12, 2017 at 5:45 am

    Very helpful. Thanks alot.

  16. Philip Andersen says

    May 5, 2017 at 8:19 am

    perfect — see I was allowed to start with lowercase p :-)

  17. nisa says

    March 28, 2017 at 7:24 am

    thankyou, it’s very helpful

  18. Bozzo says

    January 29, 2017 at 10:17 am

    Thanks for the help

  19. khan says

    January 8, 2017 at 4:03 am

    Thank you so much for publishing in so easy way.

  20. Joe F. says

    April 30, 2016 at 5:37 pm

    that was very helpful.
    Thanks a lot

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