If it follows a full stop, it's a new sentence. I know it's only a slight
annoyance, but with my slow two-fingered typing any aid is a comfort. BTW I
was taught at school that the terms "speech mark" and "quotation mark" are
interchangeable; one is technical usage, the other more informal.

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:

"It would be impossible," Peter might have written, "for a mere word
processing program to determine when and when not to capitalize a
letter after a quotation mark." I used the word "impossible" once in
that sentence.

On Jul 14, 8:01 am, "Stefan Blom"
wrote:
The auto capitalization (apparently) cannot deal with all possible
situations. But, as Peter wrote, since you have to press Shift anyway to
insert the quotation mark, manual capitalization will be very easy in this
case.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

"The DixieFlatline" The wrote in
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I've noticed that in Word, if a sentence starts with a speech mark, ie
"How
are you?" Word will not capitalize the first letter of the sentence. Is
there a way to make it do so?-