Why isn't autocorrect working on two initial capital letters?

[PRR]

I have my autocorrect settings set to change two initial caps to only
capitalize the first letter. But the word "STrymon" (the name of a
river in Macedonia) doesn't get changed to "Strymon." I looked in my
autocorrect exceptions and there was nothing about allowing this word
to remain uncorrected (the only entry I have in the exceptions for
initial caps is the term "IDs"). Is there any reason why this isn't
being changed---and what do I have to do to get Word 2002 to change
these initial two capital letters?

 

[PRR]

Never mind. I just changed it myself, and the red (spell check) line
was still there. After inserting "Strymon" into my dictionary, I then
checked it--and Word dutifully changed STrymon to Strymon. OK that
mystery is solved--evidently Word has to have a word in the
dictionary, to change the initial two caps. Is this correct?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Sort of. What it amounts to is that AutoCorrect doesn't work on "misspelled"
words because the spelling correction is considered the first priority
and/or because Word may say to itself, "I don't know this word, so for all I
know the user may WANT to have it written this way." In many cases, this
would be true.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org