Word 2000 won't let me type a small case letter i

[davidg]

I can do it here, "i", and I can do it in Outlook Express, but when I
am in Word 2000, it will not let me type a lower case letter i unless
it's inside or at the end of a word. If I type an i as the first
letter of any word, whether at the beginning of a sentence or not, it
always comes out as a capital I.

I don't have caps lock on and I'm not punching any other buttons.

What's up?

D.

 

[Terry Farrell]

This is the AutoCorrect 'Capitalise the first letter of a new sentence' in
action. You can turn this off in Tools, AutoCorrect, but it means that it
will not catch any errors. If you only use the small i at the start of a
sentence occasionally, then Ctrl+Z (Undo) immediately i changes to I to
override the action.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

AutoCorrect will always correct i to I, assuming you mean the pronoun.
Without losing this useful functionality (by deleting the AutoCorrect
entry), your best recourse when you do want a lowercase i is to press Ctrl+Z
(Undo) immediately after the AutoCorrection.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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