How to turn on/off auto-capitalization in Outlook?
Outlook's auto-capitalization feature helps correct capitalization errors as you compose emails, such as changing CApitalization to Capitalization. However, there are times when this feature might not be desirable, such as when typing specialized terms like ICBank, which should not be automatically altered to Icbank. This guide will show you how to easily turn the auto-capitalization feature on or off in Microsoft Outlook, giving you control over how your text is formatted.
Turn on/off auto-capitalization in Outlook
Turn on/off auto-capitalization in Outlook
Here we will guide you to turn on or off the auto-capitalization feature of two initial capitals, capital the first letter of sentences, name of days, and more.
Step 1: Click the File > Options.
Step 2: Click the Mail in the left bar.
Step 3: Click the Spelling and Autocorrect button in the Compose messages section.
Step 4: In the Editor Options dialog box, click the AutoCorrect Options button.
Step 5: Click the AutoCorrect tab firstly in the AutoCorrect: English (United States) dialog box, and then:
- To turn off correcting two initial capitals, please uncheck the Correct TWo INitial CApitals option;
- To turn off auto capitalizing the first letter of each sentence, please uncheck the Capitalize first letter of sentences option.
- To turn off auto capitalizing the first letter of table cells, please uncheck the Capitalize first letter of table cells option.
- To turn off auto capitalizing names of days, please uncheck the Capitalize names of days option.
- To turn off the correcting accidental usage of caps lock keys, please uncheck the Correct accidental usage of cAPs LOCK key option.
To turn on the auto capitalizing or correcting capitalization, please check the relative options above.
Step 6: It’s optional to click the Exceptions button to add exceptions of auto-correcting capitalizing.
Step 7: Click the OK buttons in each dialog box.
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