Office 2007 simplicity?

that this has more to do with the way you type. Not a criticism, just an observation.

For example, I note in your own post that your lines of type are short, and that you appear to be hitting the Enter key at the end of every line.

If you do this in Word, it will automatically create a capital letter at the beginning of each line.

Why not try just typing, and when the line reaches the right hand edge of the page, just keep on typing. Word will wrap around automatically to the new line, and will continue the sentence without capitalizing.

If that fails, look for Tools > AutoCorrect options in Word, and under the AutoCorrect tab, see if Capitalize first letter of sentences is ticked.

Mark

John,

Sorry, I don't have Office 2007, so I can only tell you how this is implemented in Office XP.

1. It's an autocorrect option to start each sentence with a Capital. And the autocorrect options are the place to uncheck it. http://wordprocessing.about.com/od/microsoftword2007/qt/autocorrect07.htm tells you where to find the autocorrect options in Word 2007.

2. Personally, I would circumvent the problem in Office XP, simply by not starting a new sentence at the end of a line, but starting a new line. That's shift-enter in stead of enter. Has this disappeared from Office 2007?

Be careful when you state your problem. There's a difference between a line, a sentence and a paragraph.
- Enter makes a new paragraph, and implies a new sentence.
- A full stop (.) is the end of sentence, and starts a new one in the same paragraph.
- Shift-enter doesn't even end a sentence, it just continues the current sentence on the next line.

Unless Microsoft changed all of this in Office 2007, the problem isn't in Word, but in your misunderstanding Words concepts. It really helps to set Options>View to Show all (but that's Office XP-speak also).

The third solution, of course, is using any other tool than MS Word. A simple word processor like Wordpad (comes free with Windows) doesn't do this. And you can always copy-paste to Word if for some reason you don't tell about you need the text in Word.

Kees

Thanks for the keyword ?Auto Correct? Mark, and Kees.

I entered that term in the search window via the help button
in the far right upper corner of an open word document.
A whole host of options appeared including ?Automatically
correct capitalization?.

I selected ?Where are the AutoCorrect options??

A window listing Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint,
Access, OneNote, Project, Publisher, and Visio appeared.

Clicking on Microsoft Office Word, it explains to click
the Microsoft Office Button ?Logo?, and then click Word Options.

From the Word Options dialog box, click Proofing,
and then click AutoCorrect Options.

Whew! They didn?t explain I needed to have a packed lunch
with me while the exercise was in progress.

I really enjoy my new computer so I?m not bad mouthing it.
It?s just full of so many options that are quite overwhelming
at times in trying to learn about.

Regarding my use of the ?Enter Button? and short sentence
breaks?

I?m one of those two finger ?hunt-n-peck? typers left over
from the `ole typewriter era, and have never lost the instinct
of throttling that mechanical carriage to the left.

The short, or narrow sentence structure stems from writing what will
actually be read aloud, found in broadcasting for example.

Thanks for your help. It was what I needed to fix my plight.

Thanks again.

John