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flowslow

Every time I type "Hawai'i" AutoCorrect changes it to "Hawai'I" -
unless I deselect the 'change as you type' option, which I want to
keep, I can't get Entourage to make an exception. Help!
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Every time I type "Hawai'i" AutoCorrect changes it to "Hawai'I" -
unless I deselect the 'change as you type' option, which I want to
keep, I can't get Entourage to make an exception. Help!
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I can't even get it to do that. Have you added an AutoCorrect to change "i"
to "I"? (Check Tools/AutoCorrect/ and the list of replacements.) If so,
select that pair and delete it. If not, I can't see what might be doing it.
I tried selecting all options and it doesn't occur here.

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PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using -
**2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
otherwise.
 
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Barry Wainwright

I can't even get it to do that. Have you added an AutoCorrect to change "i"
to "I"? (Check Tools/AutoCorrect/ and the list of replacements.) If so,
select that pair and delete it. If not, I can't see what might be doing it.
I tried selecting all options and it doesn't occur here.
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It could also be the option to capitalise the first letter of a sentence...
 
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Paul Berkowitz

It could also be the option to capitalise the first letter of a sentence...
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No, I tried that one too. That capitalizes an "i" after a period or at the
beginning of a line, but does NOT capitalize an "i" (nor anything else)
after an apostrophe. Nor should it.

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Paul Berkowitz
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Paul Berkowitz

I tested. It's the replace "i" with "I" entry, and it doesn't need to be
added, that is a default built-in entry.
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Ah. I guess I must have got fed up with it and removed it at some point in
the past. I'm happy to take your word for it that it's built in. Much more
plausible that I removed it and forgot I'd done so: When I include
AppleScript code in emails, as I often do, it's quite common to use the
variable 'i' (lower-case), usually to represent integers in a loop. I
wouldn't have wanted that to change to an "I", and must have turned it off.
For the similar reasons, I turned off capitalization of the first word of
"sentences": in AppleScript code, which is all lower case, that turns the
first character of every line into an upper-case character. (Keep an eye out
for Barry's typed, not pasted, AppleScript code in emails to see what I mean
;-) This one I _do_ remember turning off.

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**2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
otherwise.
 
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Daiya Mitchell

No, I tried that one too. That capitalizes an "i" after a period or at the
beginning of a line, but does NOT capitalize an "i" (nor anything else)
after an apostrophe. Nor should it.
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I tested. It's the replace "i" with "I" entry, and it doesn't need to be
added, that is a default built-in entry.

Deleting that entry is also a bit of an all or nothing solution-- I
generally find it helpful to have "i" alone automatically capitalized, and
AutoCorrect is the same across all Office apps.

This seems to work: Set up an AutoCorrect entry for "hw" to replace with
"Hawai'i" and then the "i" to "I" seems not to *also* trigger.

Daiya
 
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flowslow

Every time I type "Hawai'i" AutoCorrect changes it to "Hawai'I" -
unless I deselect the 'change as you type' option, which I want to
keep, I can't get Entourage to make an exception. Help!
Click to expand...

Thanks, all! I simply deleted the "i" to "I" - just didn't occur to me
that this replace set would happen after an apostrophe as well.
 
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Daiya Mitchell

Thanks, all! I simply deleted the "i" to "I" - just didn't occur to me
that this replace set would happen after an apostrophe as well.
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Just FYI--AutoCorrect triggers on all punctuation (comma, apostrophe,
hyphen, colon, etc) as well as space, tab, and enter. Although the
punctuation trigger seems a bit unreliable in Entourage....

Daiya
 
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