turn off capital letter after punctuation mark

[toegrim]

There is a bug in the norwegian language correction function on
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac that stems from a lack of knowledge in
Norwegian grammar. The program automatically changes the first letter
after a punctuation mark to a capital letter. That is ok when a new
sentence starts but it is very ugly when you want to write for
instance a date. In norwegian the months do not have capital letters.
Ok, so you probably do not care and I do not blame you. If someone
could tell me how to turn this off, however, I would be very happy.
tellef
oslo

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Word | Preferences | AutoCorrect. You'll see the "capitalize a new
sentence" option--uncheck it. AutoCorrect is language dependent, so you
should see that it says Norwegian in the top of the dialog, assuming you
type in both English and Norwegian at times. You would need to redo this
while writing in English if you wanted the change to apply to both.

*However*, there is also an Exceptions button. Check it out. You might
be able to workaround the problem by using the settings in exception,
not sure. I'm not sure if the conflict arises because Norwegian demands
that you don't capitalize a month even when it starts a new sentence
(Exceptions probably won't help), or because Norwegian uses periods or
commas when writing dates (Exceptions might help).

Please also report to this to the MacBU by using Help | Send Feedback in
Word.

 

[CyberTaz]

Hello Telef -

The feature involved is AutoCorrect, located in the Tools menu. However, it
works on the basis of end punctuation and you can't pick & choose which
characters do/don't trigger the capitalizing - it's either On or Off by way
of a check box.

I would think that there should be an accommodation in the language so it
may be a bug as you suspect. My knowledge of Norwegian is about 6 levels
below my knowledge of aerospace engineering - and that's literally nil,
so I'm afraid I have no idea what entries to suggest - it may not even work,
but...

You might have a go at Tools> AutoCorrect - Exceptions to see if there is
any way to handle it there. Based on what you apparently understand about
the feature you may be able to make the necessary adjustment.

I'm not sure whether any of the regulars here know Norwegian, but there are
some who work more with other languages. Perhaps there will be some more
specific suggestions to come.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac