Cindy,
That is the way it is unfortunately. Here Suzanne
Barnhill provides some thoughts:
Word automatically capitalizes the first word in each
numbered item because it's the beginning of a paragraph,
and the beginning of a paragraph must be the beginning of
a sentence, right? But users don't always want items in
numbered lists capitalized. There was a time when Word was
a little smarter about this, and if the previous numbered
item (or the introduction to the list) didn't end in a
period (if the introduction ended in a colon, say, or the
numbered items ended in commas or semicolons or no
punctuation), Word would leave the capitalization alone.
This worked for me, but some users must still have been
dissatisfied, and so MS "fixed" Word so that it *never*
autocorrects the letter after a number followed by a
period, even when it is not in a numbered list but in
running text. <sigh>
>-----Original Message-----
>Why does the automatic capitalization after a period not
>work when the character previous to the period is a
>number? Can I change this somehow? If so, how?
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