auto correct with capitalization at beginning of sentence

[DebiMTathome]

I use Word for medical transcription at home. My old computer just crashed
and I am using the trial version of Word for Teachers & Students that came
with my new computer before I choose which version to buy. My old computer
used Word 2000 SR1 and if I used the abbreviation tp, which expands out to
"the patient" and used a capital Tp, such as at the beginning of the
sentence, my auto-correct would assume the upper case, "The patient." It
doesn't do that with the Word software on my new computer and I was wondering
if there was a way to make that work. I seem to remember on one version of
Word that I had used, there were options when you added a word to skip the
word, auto correct using case of checked word, etc., but that doesn't pull up
on this version of Word. Any advice??? Thank you! Debi

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Tools>AutoCorrect>Autoformat as you type and turn on "Automatically
capitalise the first letter of sentences."

That should fix it.

Cheers

I use Word for medical transcription at home. My old computer just crashed
and I am using the trial version of Word for Teachers & Students that came
with my new computer before I choose which version to buy. My old computer
used Word 2000 SR1 and if I used the abbreviation tp, which expands out to
"the patient" and used a capital Tp, such as at the beginning of the
sentence, my auto-correct would assume the upper case, "The patient." It
doesn't do that with the Word software on my new computer and I was wondering
if there was a way to make that work. I seem to remember on one version of
Word that I had used, there were options when you added a word to skip the
word, auto correct using case of checked word, etc., but that doesn't pull up
on this version of Word. Any advice??? Thank you! Debi

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