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.
- While working in Word, select the “File” menu and choose “Options“.
- Select “Proofing” and then select the “AutoCorrect Options…” button.
- 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.
- Select “OK“, then “OK” again when you are done.
These settings are also located other Office applications such as Excel and PowerPoint.
Karin Jokisch says
I don’t have “proofing’ so couldn’t follow any other steps
Issy says
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?
Miller says
I really appreciate it! Thank you so much!
Jim RIDER says
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
Karla Gabel says
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!
Stefano says
Good it’s work but after a restar i lost these settings!!!
Do you know how to set as Default value?
Greg says
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.
Lion III says
Thank you
Jane Miller says
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.
Timothy Takemoto timtak says
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.
Ioana Virginia Bolba says
In my Word, i after – was always typed I (Capital i). I followed your suggestions and it functions correctly now. Than you.
BD says
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.
David says
Very helpful. Thanks alot.
Philip Andersen says
perfect — see I was allowed to start with lowercase p :-)
nisa says
thankyou, it’s very helpful
Bozzo says
Thanks for the help
khan says
Thank you so much for publishing in so easy way.
Joe F. says
that was very helpful.
Thanks a lot