if I write the word "cuma" in the stupid MS word, why automatical.

[Guest]

if I write the word "cuma" in the stupid MS word, why automatically
capitalise the first lettter? It is not a name of a day in English?
is this how Microsoft improve the Office 2003?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Look in Tools | AutoCorrect to see if there is an entry set up for it.

Are you suggesting it is a day name in some other language? In that case,
if you have automatic language detection turned on, Word 2003 might be
trying to help you out. After this happens, put the cursor in the word and
go to Tools | Language and see what language comes up selected.

 

[Opinicus]

Are you suggesting it is a day name in some other
language? In that case,
if you have automatic language detection turned on, Word
2003 might be
trying to help you out. After this happens, put the
cursor in the word and
go to Tools | Language and see what language comes up
selected.

Oddly enough, "Cuma" is the Turkish word for "Friday".

But that couldn't possibly be the reason why Word is
capitalizing it. (Could it?)

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Oddly enough, "Cuma" is the Turkish word for "Friday".

But that couldn't possibly be the reason why Word is
capitalizing it. (Could it?)

With auto language detection, maybe. AutoCorrect is definitely
language-dependent--it seems conceivable that cuma to Cuma is a default
entry for Turkish and that Word is recognizing the word as Turkish and
changing it. I'm just guessing though.

Just to complicate this--my MacWord 2004 does not have auto lang detection,
and does not auto-capitalize Cuma. But for some reason my Office suite
email program (Entourage) does, though it is not a defined entry. I didn't
think Entourage had auto lang detection either, though, so there may be
something else entirely going on.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Are you suggesting it is a day name in some other language? In that case,

With auto language detection, maybe. AutoCorrect is definitely
language-dependent--it seems conceivable that cuma to Cuma is a default
entry for Turkish and that Word is recognizing the word as Turkish and
changing it. I'm just guessing though.

PS. The setting in Tools | AutoCorrect to "automatically use suggestions
from the spell checker" may also affect this.

Just to complicate this--my MacWord 2004 does not have auto lang detection,
and does not auto-capitalize Cuma. But for some reason my Office suite
email program (Entourage) does, though it is not a defined entry. I didn't
think Entourage had auto lang detection either, though, so there may be
something else entirely going on.

And Entourage doesn't capitalize the few French day names I know. A mystery.

DM

 

[Opinicus]

With auto language detection, maybe. AutoCorrect is
definitely
language-dependent--it seems conceivable that cuma to Cuma
is a default
entry for Turkish and that Word is recognizing the word as
Turkish and
changing it. I'm just guessing though.

I think the time has come to ask the original poster why he
wants to write the non-English word "cuma" at all...

 

[Bob S]

One of the AutoCorrect options is to automatically capitalize days of
the week. It works, but you may get more than you bargained for. If
you happen to type the words for days of the week in a foreign
language, AutoCorrect will capitalize them, even though there are no
(visible) AutoCorrect entries for them, and even though automatic
language recognition is off.

For example, it will capitalize Turkish day names; Pazar (Market Day,
Sunday), Pazartesi (After Market Day, Monday), Sali (Tuesday),
Çarsamba (Four days after Sabbath, Wednesday), Persembe (Five days
after Sabbath, Thursday), Cuma (Reunion Day, Friday), Cumartesi (After
Reunion Day, Saturday). (The "s" in Çarsamba and Persembe and the "C"
in Çarsamba should have a cedille under them; this may not come
through in all newreaders.)

It will also capitalize day names in German, and probably in many
other languages. It will not capitalize French day names, because that
is not the custom in France. If you happen to know day names in other
languages, you can amuse yourself by trying them out.

This is probably a bug caused by a feature. If Microsoft had just put
the day names in the default AutoCorrect lists for each language, this
problem would not occur. When they decided to have a separate check
box for capitalizing day names, some unknown programmer took the easy
way out and just made one big (hidden) list instead of doing it
per-language.

Bob S

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Fascinating. Thanks for the update.

One of the AutoCorrect options is to automatically capitalize days of
the week. It works, but you may get more than you bargained for. If
you happen to type the words for days of the week in a foreign
language, AutoCorrect will capitalize them, even though there are no
(visible) AutoCorrect entries for them, and even though automatic
language recognition is off.

For example, it will capitalize Turkish day names; Pazar (Market Day,
Sunday), Pazartesi (After Market Day, Monday), Sali (Tuesday),
Çarsamba (Four days after Sabbath, Wednesday), Persembe (Five days
after Sabbath, Thursday), Cuma (Reunion Day, Friday), Cumartesi (After
Reunion Day, Saturday). (The "s" in Çarsamba and Persembe and the "C"
in Çarsamba should have a cedille under them; this may not come
through in all newreaders.)

It will also capitalize day names in German, and probably in many
other languages. It will not capitalize French day names, because that
is not the custom in France. If you happen to know day names in other
languages, you can amuse yourself by trying them out.

This is probably a bug caused by a feature. If Microsoft had just put
the day names in the default AutoCorrect lists for each language, this
problem would not occur. When they decided to have a separate check
box for capitalizing day names, some unknown programmer took the easy
way out and just made one big (hidden) list instead of doing it
per-language.

Bob S