How to prevent unwanted Capitalization

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Sarah Feliz

I'm trying to add exceptions to the Capitalize First Letter rule. Under
Exceptions, there's a "Don't Capitalize After" list. I'd like to add some
entries to this list but when I do the "Add" button does not activate (it
remains greyed out). I suspect that this is because the first letter of my
entries is a number, not a letter. For ex., these are some of the
abbreviations I'm trying to enter:

1a.
2a.
3a. And so on... (the "And" here should not be capitalized--that's what I'm
trying to achieve.)

But when I enter 1a. (and so on..) Word does not recognize these as
legitimate entries. In other words I can't enter them.

Is there any workaround to this problem? A way to have word not capitalize
after such entries?

Thanks!
 
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Steve Blunk

I'm trying to add exceptions to the Capitalize First Letter rule. Under
Exceptions, there's a "Don't Capitalize After" list. I'd like to add some
entries to this list but when I do the "Add" button does not activate (it
remains greyed out). I suspect that this is because the first letter of my
entries is a number, not a letter. For ex., these are some of the
abbreviations I'm trying to enter:

1a.
2a.
3a. And so on... (the "And" here should not be capitalized--that's what I'm
trying to achieve.)

But when I enter 1a. (and so on..) Word does not recognize these as
legitimate entries. In other words I can't enter them.

Is there any workaround to this problem? A way to have word not capitalize
after such entries?
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1a. Interestingly, for me capitalization happens in Entourage, but not in
Word itself. That's using the default entries in the Exceptions dictionary,
which includes a., b., c., etc. I haven't found a way to start an entry
with a number (what you'd already seen).

1a. also interesting, maybe. I appear to be able to get what you're
looking for if I turn off 'Capitalize First Word of Sentences", I had to do
that from the Entourage menu for it to take hold, though.

1a. still interesting, I think. Try adding entries using the Entourage
menu (Tools, AutoCorrect, etc.). It appears to have worked.
 
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