How to really turn off auto-formating?

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I have Word 2000 and sometimes the auto formating drives me nuts, like when
it insists on capitalizing a word just because if is at the left margin,
even if it isn't at the beginning of a new sentence. I have gone to many
places and menus and turned off everything I could find that looked like
auto formating. But Word still keeps trying to auto format sometimes.

Is there one definitive menu where I can turn the auto formating off and on
at will, and have it stick.

John
 
jbclem said:
I have Word 2000 and sometimes the auto formating drives me nuts, like when
it insists on capitalizing a word just because if is at the left margin,
even if it isn't at the beginning of a new sentence. I have gone to many
places and menus and turned off everything I could find that looked like
auto formating. But Word still keeps trying to auto format sometimes.

Is there one definitive menu where I can turn the auto formating off and on
at will, and have it stick.
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If only !

But for your particular problem:

1 Don't press return at the end of a line - this signals the end of a
paragraph which Word will treat as a sentence. Allow the lines to wrap, or
use Shift-Enter if you need to force a break without a paragraph end.

2 Turn off Tools > AutoCorrect Options > AutoCorrect 'Captitalize first
letter of sentence'. While you are there turn off everything here and on the
AutoFormat As You Type tab unless you understand and need the behaviour.
 
Thanks, your option #2 seems to have cured the problem. And it is a problem
when you can't type a series of very short sentences on individual lines
without having to hit shift-enter just to get to the beginning of the next
line without the current line being capitalized at its beginning. At least
I was able to turn it off.

John
 
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