She Who Sells Seashells By the Seashore ([info]arcana_mundi) wrote in [info]medievalstudies,
@ 2008-07-16 10:45:00
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The tyranny of Microsoft Word autocorrection
Dear all -

I've managed to turn off the autocorrecting feature to the fullest possible extent via the Spelling and Grammar tab under Tools->Options, but the damn thing is still insisting on inserting all kinds of capital letters after periods. I'm currently transcribing manuscript catalogue data which is chock full of things like "nomina. trinus. trinitas. et talia. non ponunt aliquid. sed tantum privant." and so on. It's vexing in the extreme to look back at my document and see it full of capital letters after periods that only mark abbreviations or ellipses.

Has anyone here sorted out how to make it stop? I'm all out of ticky boxes to untick and it's STILL DOING IT.

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[info]sylvie
2008-07-16 03:57 pm UTC (link)
What version of Word are you using? I'm not familiar with 2007, but in 2003, you want Tools->AutoCorrect Options, and then uncheck the "Capitalize first letter of sentences" box. It's irritating that some autocorrect options are in one place and others are in another.

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[info]chamfron
2008-07-16 04:02 pm UTC (link)
In Word 2007 click the Office Button | Proofing | AutoCorrect Options, then uncheck the "Capitalize first letter of sentences" box.

Hope that helps :-)

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[info]arcana_mundi
2008-07-16 04:27 pm UTC (link)
Bless you a thousand times. And then a thousand more.

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[info]policraticus
2008-07-16 04:15 pm UTC (link)
Welcome to the iMac nation.

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[info]amleto
2008-07-16 04:22 pm UTC (link)
Try OpenOffice- it's free, and not being Microsoft, doesn't think it knows better than the user.

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[info]arcana_mundi
2008-07-16 04:28 pm UTC (link)
Is Open Office pretty stable? Not that Microsoft is bedrock or anything, but I don't want to vex my committee sending them files that are hinky or won't open on their machines etc.?

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[info]amleto
2008-07-16 04:37 pm UTC (link)
It's fairly stable, and you can still save files as .doc, so no one can tell the difference. FAQ is here. I don't use it myself, but my boyfriend swears by it (and he's writing a dissertation, not something you'd leave to sketchy software ^__~)

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[info]eleanoreight
2008-07-16 07:50 pm UTC (link)
It's all I've used for the past three years, and you can save files as .rtf, which are readable in Word and on Macs. The PowerPoint feature is a bit stickier, but I haven't tested the newest release.

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[info]anandimide
2008-07-16 05:05 pm UTC (link)
In my version of Word, when it auto-corrects something, you can hover your mouse over what it corrected & a little menu drops down that gives you "change back to..." & "stop auto-correcting..." options.

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[info]jljonsn
2008-07-16 05:30 pm UTC (link)
Click the "Accept Medieval Latin"" button.

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[info]arcana_mundi
2008-07-16 06:14 pm UTC (link)
HAHAHAIWISH

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[info]chamfron
2008-07-16 07:43 pm UTC (link)
Nah, they disabled that option after Word 1390 :-)

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[info]bellebonnesage
2008-07-16 09:39 pm UTC (link)
Only in Italy. The new versions took longer to get to the North -- no FedEx.

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