You can. And you can turn off the annoying bulleting/automatic
indentation/grammar check and everything else that drives you crazy
when you're trying to write poetry. Or anything at all that isn't a
business letter.
As with all Microsoft software that I end up resentfully using, the
fact that I have to do so - and that how to do so isn't actually that
obvious - generates a lot of cursing.
xA
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> You can turn it off
>
> I find I am on Word for Mac 2004, which is the standard at Goldsmiths
>
> and I have turned it off under TOOLS/AUTOCORRECT
>
> Of course with every version they'll move it around and I know I am years
> behind -- very happy to be: I know how this one works and can get my work
> done; but I think you can turn it off
>
> My suspicion is that the default is on
>
> Hope that helps
>
> On Wed, January 6, 2010 06:39, Chris Jones wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 16:31 -0800, Catherine Daly wrote:
>>
>>> it isn't only the poet's choice; a lot of journals and presses,
>>> especially the more conservative ones, automatically cap first lines
>>>
>>> as MS Word still does if the auto capping isn't turned off
>>
>> Could someone explain a first line cap?
>>
>>
>> I am guessing this means the first letter of the first word of first
>> line is a cap and not the entire line.
>>
>> An editorial expression I can't remember hearing before (not that this
>> means much, dementia.)
>>
>> If MS words does this automatically, I would likely throw the entire
>> dead brain mechanism out the window. best, Chris Jones.
>>
>
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