I work for a growing online company that recently re-branded itself as "mycompany" (not its real name but the real name has all lower case, no space between words). I am trying to find a way to force Microsoft Word to never auto-capitalize the name "mycompany", whether it is at the beginning of a document, paragraph, or sentence. I am having no luck so far.
I reviewed the documentation related to AutoCorrect and I know that there appears to be a way to prevent Microsoft Word from auto-capitalizing "mycompany" at the beginning of a sentence by going to Options → Proofing → Autocorrect → Exceptions….
However, when I add "mycompany" into the "Other Corrections" tab and say "Don't Correct", Microsoft Word continues to do so by capitalizing the "M". It's extremely frustrating.
I invite you to try it. Go to Options → Proofing → AutoCorrect → Other Corrections → Don't Correct, enter "mycompany", and then test it out in a document. Microsoft Word continues to automatically capitalize "mycompany" at the beginning of documents, paragraphs, and sentences, although I've specifically told it to NOT auto-correct!
Is this a bug in Microsoft Word or am I configuring something wrong?
Best Answer
Word will now automatically replace the word with the intended phrase. But you will have to type it in caps to start off with for the correction to occur.
Essentially, this swaps the functionality of the Caps key for the first letter of the particular phrase.