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DQS 7.1 Autocap question with single letter expansion - Sunflower


Posted: Sep 24, 2012

Just started 7.1 today. 

I believe this has already been addressed, but I cannot find it on here.

With autocap enabled, my expansions with a single letter, such as "t" for "the" and "r" for "right" capitalized the whole word. 

Any fixes for that???

autocap - dottietypes

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different word processing programs have different rules for capitalization and there is not fix to the problem unless maybe you want to enter the all caps word in your expansions to make it caps and lower case, don't know if that will work. I have just been changing my expansions

As Long as We're Here - Old MT

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My problem is that when I use an expansion to start a sentence or list, the first letter doesn't capitalize. Anyone know how to fix that?

F2 - nm

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NM

capitalize the expansion as you enter it. nm - downtime

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nm

Tools, Options, Autocorrect - mt

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You have to select the "autocapitalize first letter" option, which is under Tools - Options - Autocorrect.

Hope that helps.
Old MT - Thanks so much, I have those set...
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I just sometimes doesn't capitalize the first letter of the expansion. I need to Shift for that first letter, I guess, each time. If I shift for the whole thing, the whole thing comes up capped. My auto-cap is turned on.

Thanks for your help!

capitalization - dottietypes

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Sometimes it will cap after you finish the sentence and hit a return, as in the diagnoses, etc. In a pargraph if it does not capitalize I will often put my cursor at the beginning, hit a return, it will capitalize, and tnen i hit the backspace key to bring it back up into the paragraph. I find this quicker than highlight and capitalizing.


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