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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? |
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Use the same shift key that you used to type the quotation mark (not
"speech mark"). On Jul 13, 11:30*pm, The DixieFlatline The wrote: 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? |
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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 message ... 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? |
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"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 ... 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?- |
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Indeed. :-)
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message ... "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 ... 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?- |
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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 ... 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?- |
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Curious. When and where was your school?
I can certainly come up with examples where the first word inside the quotation marks is capitalized even if the quotation doesn't follow a period (or question mark or exclamation point). It really isn't hard to tearn to type with ten fingers. Any secondhand bookstore will have old typing manuals (you don't need a computer program!), and if you practice the first few lessons for maybe 20 minutes a day, over a week or so, you'll be amazed what you can accomplish. (Don't be frightened by how thick the book is -- mostly they're teaching secretaries how to format business letters and such.) On Jul 14, 10:02*pm, The DixieFlatline wrote: 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 ... 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?-- |
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My schooling was many years ago, but I did come away with an o-level in
English Language. One thing we were taught was that there's times and places when absolutely correct speech is needed, and others when insistance on it was merely pedantry. (Polite cough.) Yes, I know there's cases where it is/isn't capitalized, but it's _always_ capitalized after a full stop, exclamation- or question-mark, which is why I wondered whether I'd missed something in settings to turn it on; it seemed a small point. I've tried to learn the old ten-finger business, but I'm afraid too many years of bad habits have got in the way. My ten finger typing is ever worse, and slower than, my two finger typing lol "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Curious. When and where was your school? I can certainly come up with examples where the first word inside the quotation marks is capitalized even if the quotation doesn't follow a period (or question mark or exclamation point). It really isn't hard to tearn to type with ten fingers. Any secondhand bookstore will have old typing manuals (you don't need a computer program!), and if you practice the first few lessons for maybe 20 minutes a day, over a week or so, you'll be amazed what you can accomplish. (Don't be frightened by how thick the book is -- mostly they're teaching secretaries how to format business letters and such.) On Jul 14, 10:02 pm, The DixieFlatline wrote: 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 ... 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?-- |
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On Jul 15, 5:09*am, The DixieFlatline
wrote: My schooling was many years ago, but I did come away with an o-level in Aha! You're in the Eastern Hemisphere! (Then why call yourself "Dixie"?) English Language. One thing we were taught was that there's times and places when absolutely correct speech is needed, and others when insistance on it was merely pedantry. (Polite cough.) It's odd to have encountered that enlightened attitude "many years ago" -- unless your use of "many" is a lot smaller than mine! There was a huge furore over here when the "descriptivist" Third International Dictionary was publlished by Merriam-Webster in 1961. Yes, I know there's cases where it is/isn't capitalized, but it's _always_ capitalized after a full stop, exclamation- or question-mark, which is why I wondered whether I'd missed something in settings to turn it on; it seemed a small point. It's easier to type a capital than to uncapitalize a wrongly capitalized letter. I've tried to learn the old ten-finger business, but I'm afraid too many years of bad habits have got in the way. My ten finger typing is ever worse, and slower than, my two finger typing lol It just takes a little practice (using basic exercises). "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Curious. When and where was your school? I can certainly come up with examples where the first word inside the quotation marks is capitalized even if the quotation doesn't follow a period (or question mark or exclamation point). It really isn't hard to tearn to type with ten fingers. Any secondhand bookstore will have old typing manuals (you don't need a computer program!), and if you practice the first few lessons for maybe 20 minutes a day, over a week or so, you'll be amazed what you can accomplish. (Don't be frightened by how thick the book is -- mostly they're teaching secretaries how to format business letters and such.) On Jul 14, 10:02 pm, The DixieFlatline wrote: 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 ... 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?--- |
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Eastern? I think not. I'm a tad over 100 miles west of Greenwich, a bit more
by road. The Dixie Flattline is a character in Neuromancer by William Gibson. To cut a long story short, he is dead and lives only in a computer. I was house-bound for a fair while and almost lived on the internet, so it seemed an appropriate nickname. Guess you're right about the disadvantages outweighing the advantages the speech mark thing. Yes, I do manage to stumble along with ten fingers (is "stumble the right word, when applied to fingers? hmm...) but as soon as I need to pick up the pace, or get interested in what I'm doing, I forget and regress to the faster two fingers. Ah well, Any Road ... as George Harrison might have said. "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: On Jul 15, 5:09 am, The DixieFlatline wrote: My schooling was many years ago, but I did come away with an o-level in Aha! You're in the Eastern Hemisphere! (Then why call yourself "Dixie"?) English Language. One thing we were taught was that there's times and places when absolutely correct speech is needed, and others when insistance on it was merely pedantry. (Polite cough.) It's odd to have encountered that enlightened attitude "many years ago" -- unless your use of "many" is a lot smaller than mine! There was a huge furore over here when the "descriptivist" Third International Dictionary was publlished by Merriam-Webster in 1961. Yes, I know there's cases where it is/isn't capitalized, but it's _always_ capitalized after a full stop, exclamation- or question-mark, which is why I wondered whether I'd missed something in settings to turn it on; it seemed a small point. It's easier to type a capital than to uncapitalize a wrongly capitalized letter. I've tried to learn the old ten-finger business, but I'm afraid too many years of bad habits have got in the way. My ten finger typing is ever worse, and slower than, my two finger typing lol It just takes a little practice (using basic exercises). "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Curious. When and where was your school? I can certainly come up with examples where the first word inside the quotation marks is capitalized even if the quotation doesn't follow a period (or question mark or exclamation point). It really isn't hard to tearn to type with ten fingers. Any secondhand bookstore will have old typing manuals (you don't need a computer program!), and if you practice the first few lessons for maybe 20 minutes a day, over a week or so, you'll be amazed what you can accomplish. (Don't be frightened by how thick the book is -- mostly they're teaching secretaries how to format business letters and such.) On Jul 14, 10:02 pm, The DixieFlatline wrote: 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 ... 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?--- |
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