How to really turn off auto-formating?

[jbclem]

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

 

[Margaret Aldis]

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.

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.

 

[jbclem]

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