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.
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