Auto Correct Initial Capitals

[ZTamsen]

I like to sign off emails created in MS Outlook with my initials in all lower
case. Whenever I do so and hit RETURN, it automatically capitalizes my first
initial. I have added my initials to the autocorrect exception list, but it
continues to autocorrect. Any suggestions to permanently fix would be
greatly appreciated. I know it can be done because my old computer did it
fine, but I just started a new job this week and I can't find the setting.

thanks,
zwt
(note, all lower case)

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

My guess is that the "Capitalize first letter of sentences" setting is
what's making your zwt into Zwt.

 

[ZTamsen]

Herb,

Thanks for the info. That does appear to be the issue. How can I fix that
for this specific usage. I would still like to capitalize first words in
sentences, but not in this case. Is there a way to set that up?

thanks,
zwt

 

[Bob I]

Just a thought, set Zwt -> zwt?

Herb,

Thanks for the info. That does appear to be the issue. How can I fix that
for this specific usage. I would still like to capitalize first words in
sentences, but not in this case. Is there a way to set that up?

thanks,
zwt

:

 

[ZTamsen]

where do I do that setting? In the "control autocorrect settings" box, under
exceptions, in the "other corrections" tab, I added a "do not correct"
setting to "zwt", but it continues to change it.

Thanks for all of the help.
zwt

 

[Bob I]

Autocorrect Tab, Replace-With box. and also add zwt to the dictionary.

 

[ZTamsen]

Bob -

Thanks for all of the help/input. However, when I do as you suggested,
apparently the Cap first letter of a sentence overrides the "Replace With"
option and my initials still end up capitalized. Any more ideas?

thanks so much,
zwt

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

When it happens, you can press Ctrl+Z to undo that "correction." That might
be about the best you can do, assuming you want to preserve sentence
capitalization. Or, you could turn off all capitalization and pretend you're
e e cummings. ;-)

Oddly enough, in Office 2007, Word and Outlook handle this differently. I
don't know about earlier versions... but, when I include Hlt/hlt as a
replace/with combo in AutoCorrect in Word, it overrides sentence
capitalization, and I get the behavior you want. In Outlook, however,
sentence capitalization wins the battle. Very odd. I would have expected
both to behave the same way.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Are you allowing word wrap to work or are you using a hard return at the end of a line?

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After furious head scratching, ZTamsen asked:

| Bob -
|
| Thanks for all of the help/input. However, when I do as you
| suggested, apparently the Cap first letter of a sentence overrides
| the "Replace With" option and my initials still end up capitalized.
| Any more ideas?
|
| thanks so much,
| zwt
|
| "Bob I" wrote:
|
|| Autocorrect Tab, Replace-With box. and also add zwt to the
|| dictionary.
||
|| ZTamsen wrote:
||
||| where do I do that setting? In the "control autocorrect settings"
||| box, under exceptions, in the "other corrections" tab, I added a
||| "do not correct" setting to "zwt", but it continues to change it.
|||
||| Thanks for all of the help.
||| zwt
|||
|||
||| "Bob I" wrote:
|||
|||
|||| Just a thought, set Zwt -> zwt?
||||
|||| ZTamsen wrote:
||||
||||
||||| Herb,
|||||
||||| Thanks for the info. That does appear to be the issue. How can
||||| I fix that for this specific usage. I would still like to
||||| capitalize first words in sentences, but not in this case. Is
||||| there a way to set that up?
|||||
||||| thanks,
||||| zwt
|||||
||||| "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||| My guess is that the "Capitalize first letter of sentences"
|||||| setting is what's making your zwt into Zwt.
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Herb Tyson MS MVP
|||||| Author of the Word 2007 Bible
|||||| Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
|||||| Web: http://www.herbtyson.com
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||||||| I like to sign off emails created in MS Outlook with my
||||||| initials in all lower
||||||| case. Whenever I do so and hit RETURN, it automatically
||||||| capitalizes my first
||||||| initial. I have added my initials to the autocorrect exception
||||||| list, but it
||||||| continues to autocorrect. Any suggestions to permanently fix
||||||| would be greatly appreciated. I know it can be done because my
||||||| old computer did it fine, but I just started a new job this
||||||| week and I can't find the setting.
|||||||
||||||| thanks,
||||||| zwt
||||||| (note, all lower case)

 

[Bob I]

Use "signatures" instead of typing it?

Bob -

Thanks for all of the help/input. However, when I do as you suggested,
apparently the Cap first letter of a sentence overrides the "Replace With"
option and my initials still end up capitalized. Any more ideas?

thanks so much,
zwt

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