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Enable/Disable Auto Capitalization in MS Word

Enable/Disable Auto Capitalization in MS Word

Posted on January 4, 2022 by Mitch Bartlett 3 Comments

I don’t like Microsoft Word 2021 or 365 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“. If hidden, select “More…“, then choose “Options“.
    Word 2021 Options
  2. Select “Proofing” and then select the “AutoCorrect Options…” button.
    Word 2021 Autocorrect 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 2021 Autocorrect Options
  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 2016

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Comments

  1. Brian says

    March 27, 2022 at 3:19 pm

    Many thanks! The autocapitalization was driving me nuts. You have to remember to switch it off for both the start of a sentence as well as in a table cell as I found out.

  2. cassie says

    February 16, 2022 at 9:03 am

    doesn’t work. it still capitalizes the first letter of a sentence.

  3. Dylan says

    February 6, 2022 at 6:16 am

    No

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