Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007 and 2010. If you are using an earlier version (Excel 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Excel, click here: Turning Off Capital Corrections.
Excel often tries to compensate for your shortcomings as a typist. For instance, as you are typing along, if you type a word where the first two letters are uppercase, and the next letter is lowercase, Excel figures you just have slow fingers and didn't release the Shift key in time to make the second letter lowercase. So, it dutifully changes the second letter to lowercase to help you out.
There are some situations where this behavior can be bothersome, however. For instance, you may have a company or product name in which the first two letters are always capitalized, such as INtec or MYphone. In these cases, Excel also tries to do its magic and change the capitalization.
One solution to this problem is to turn off the correction that Excel does to your words. (At least for this particular capitalization issue.) The way you do that is as follows:
Figure 1. The AutoCorrect dialog box.
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2015-06-19 10:29:53
Ken
Or for this particular issue you're talking about you should uncheck the "Correct TWo INitial CApitals" instead. That fixed my headache. Heh. Thanks for the info though. Never would have found that on my own.
2014-11-06 14:52:15
S
A big thank you! Kudos!
2013-11-15 07:20:11
Medinoc
Too bad it can't be disabled at cell level. Word has the "no spellchecking" style option, but Excel doesn't.
2013-03-20 10:12:20
Paul
Thanks for helping - was driving me nuts.
Guys like you make the Internet a better place to visit.
Cheers
Paul
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