What a question?! We have been taught from a very early age that when you start a new sentence the first letter is ALWAYS capital, and for all proper nouns (words that name a specific person, place, organization, or thing)! Well no. Sometimes it needs to be a lower case. This could be for several reasons.
The one I come across more and more these days is when a company name starts with a lowercase letter. It is the way the world is evolving, where possibly combining two words that are related to, or explain what, the company is all about. So when you need to write about this company, it would be utterly wrong to start their name with a capital letter. But Word is programmed to start with a capital after a full stop. So what can you do? You don’t want to turn off the capitalisation, for if you are anything like me you are now expecting it, so you do not type it yourself, but allow Word to do it for you.
How to remove the capital from a leading word
- Type the word as normal.
- Word changes the first letter to a capital, which you do not want
- Select the word.
- Hold the [Shift Key] and press [F3 key] twice.
The F3 key has three stings.
- All capitalised
- Lower case
- First letter capitalised
Once you have changed this word to the correct case for the leading word it will stay that way. But you may have a highlight from the spelling and grammar feature to warn you of something wrong. Just ignore this particular word.
If you require a little more then use the [Change Case tool] in the [Front section] of the [Home tab].
- Select the dropdown arrow and a list appears with the options available.
Sentence case: means the first letter of the sentence will be capitalised ( this is your default)
Lowercase: means that all letters will be lowercase
UPPERCASE: means that all letters will be uppercase
Capitalize Each Word: means that each word will start with a capital
tOGGLE cASE: means that you had the cap lock key on when you started typing and you held the shift key to create a capital but you got a lowercase letter, you then continued typing and got uppercase letters. Using this feature all the letters change their state to the opposite case.
