Capitalizing 1st letter of sentence

My capitalization of the first letter of a sentence sometimes does not
work. Maybe 10% of the time. Of course, it never works when numbers end
the previous sentence, e.g., "I counted 10. he got a different result."
This I am working around, but my problem is more widespread. I'm just
simply getting a lot of non-capitalized sentences. Most of them occur
inexplicably as far as I can tell. Sometimes it seems to happen when the
previous sentence is short: "But no. it doesn't work that way." That's
just one example, though, and even that does work properly most of the
time. The rest of the occurrences don't seem to form any pattern at all.
It just happens, and frequently. It is so tedious to run the "find"
option so I can seek out and correct every bloody case of
"period+space", "!+space", and "?+space". Plus I have to remember to do
it in the first place.

Is there something I'm doing wrong or overlooking? Has anyone else had
this experience, or any thoughts on what might be the culprit?

I am using Word 2000 and XP. Have been using both on this same PC for
two years. I did just upgrade to SP2, but this problem is something I
began to notice at least a few months ago, before making my upgrade.

Thanks
moislers

I think I just answered my own question. My auto-correct's EXCEPTIONS
lists are full up to the neck with a list of words. Its set to "add
automatically", too. I guess that helped to produce a vicious circle.
Every time I managed to avoid a capitalization, the act fed that example
into my exceptions list. I'm deleting them now, and I've turned the
idiotic default from Yes to No. Probably this will cure the problem.


Moislers <myob.RemoveThis@666.com> wrote in news:Xns96CB5D7397615wherethehellami@
207.69.189.191:

> My capitalization of the first letter of a sentence sometimes does not
> work. Maybe 10% of the time. Of course, it never works when numbers
end
> the previous sentence, e.g., "I counted 10. he got a different
result."
> This I am working around, but my problem is more widespread. I'm just
> simply getting a lot of non-capitalized sentences. Most of them occur
> inexplicably as far as I can tell. Sometimes it seems to happen when
the
> previous sentence is short: "But no. it doesn't work that way." That's
> just one example, though, and even that does work properly most of the
> time. The rest of the occurrences don't seem to form any pattern at
all.
> It just happens, and frequently. It is so tedious to run the "find"
> option so I can seek out and correct every bloody case of
> "period+space", "!+space", and "?+space". Plus I have to remember to
do
> it in the first place.
>
> Is there something I'm doing wrong or overlooking? Has anyone else had
> this experience, or any thoughts on what might be the culprit?
>
> I am using Word 2000 and XP. Have been using both on this same PC for
> two years. I did just upgrade to SP2, but this problem is something I
> began to notice at least a few months ago, before making my upgrade.
>
> Thanks
> moislers
>