How do I stop small caps text in outgoing Outlook messages?

[John W. Plattner]

When I write a new Outlook e-mail message the small cap button comes on the
formatting toolbar and the text is in small caps [unless I turn it off each
time]. I can remove the button from the tool bar or stop it with the font
format, but on the next message it reappears.
I want to write the text in upper/lower case without having to cancel the
small caps each time.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Rename normal.dot to .old.

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After furious head scratching, John W. Plattner asked:

| When I write a new Outlook e-mail message the small cap button comes
| on the formatting toolbar and the text is in small caps [unless I
| turn it off each time]. I can remove the button from the tool bar or
| stop it with the font format, but on the next message it reappears.
| I want to write the text in upper/lower case without having to cancel
| the small caps each time.

 

[John W. Plattner]

How do I do that?

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

Aloha John,

Use Windows Search (Start | Search) to find the normal.dot file. Then right-click
it and choose "rename."

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
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How do I do that?

Rename normal.dot to .old.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, John W. Plattner asked:

| When I write a new Outlook e-mail message the small cap button
comes
| on the formatting toolbar and the text is in small caps [unless I
| turn it off each time]. I can remove the button from the tool bar
or
| stop it with the font format, but on the next message it reappears.
| I want to write the text in upper/lower case without having to
cancel
| the small caps each time

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Use Windows search to find the template normal.dot - right click, rename,
erase old extension and replace with .old. Or just delete it. I prefer
renaming so if that is not the problem, I don't have to recreate it, just
rename it back to .dot.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, John W. Plattner asked:

| How do I do that?
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Rename normal.dot to .old.
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, John W. Plattner asked:
||
||| When I write a new Outlook e-mail message the small cap button comes
||| on the formatting toolbar and the text is in small caps [unless I
||| turn it off each time]. I can remove the button from the tool bar
||| or stop it with the font format, but on the next message it
||| reappears. I want to write the text in upper/lower case without
||| having to cancel the small caps each time.

 

[Allen j]

Use Windows search to find the template normal.dot - right click, rename,
erase old extension and replace with .old. Or just delete it. I prefer
renaming so if that is not the problem, I don't have to recreate it, just
rename it back to .dot.

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, John W. Plattner asked:

| How do I do that?
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Rename normal.dot to .old.
||
|| --ÂÂ
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, John W. Plattner asked:
||
||| When I write a new Outlook e-mail message the small cap button comes
||| on the formatting toolbar and the text is in small caps [unless I
||| turn it off each time]. I can remove the button from the tool bar
||| or stop it with the font format, but on the next message it
||| reappears. I want to write the text in upper/lower case without
||| having to cancel the small caps each time.

I have the same problem. I searched on ''normal.dot'' & got one hit in 'my documents' file. I rename the file to xcxc.old. Still the same problem. Please help because the people I email to, come back with 'stop shouting' & I try explain that I type in lower case. When I go to font the ''small caps'' is always checked. allen

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

The Normal.dot you found in "My Documents" is probably not the right
one. In Windows XP, your Normal.dot is usually in the "C:\Documents and
Settings\<username>\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates" folder. In
Windows Vista, your Normal.dot is usually in the
"C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates" folder.

:

Use Windows search to find the template normal.dot - right click, rename,
erase old extension and replace with .old. Or just delete it. I prefer
renaming so if that is not the problem, I don't have to recreate it, just
rename it back to .dot.

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, John W. Plattner asked:

| How do I do that?
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Rename normal.dot to .old.
||
|| --ÂÂ
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, John W. Plattner asked:
||
||| When I write a new Outlook e-mail message the small cap button comes
||| on the formatting toolbar and the text is in small caps [unless I
||| turn it off each time]. I can remove the button from the tool bar
||| or stop it with the font format, but on the next message it
||| reappears. I want to write the text in upper/lower case without
||| having to cancel the small caps each time.

I have the same problem. I searched on ''normal.dot'' & got one hit in 'my documents' file. I rename the file to xcxc.old. Still the same problem. Please help because the people I email to, come back with 'stop shouting' & I try explain that I type in lower case. When I go to font the ''small caps'' is always checked. allen