If you are a fast typist, you might occasionally hold down the Shift key for a fraction of a second too long when starting a new sentence. Instead of typing “The quick brown fox”, you might accidentally type “THe quick brown fox.” When this happens, Microsoft Word’s AutoCorrect engine will immediately intercept the error, automatically forcing the second letter (the “H”) back into lowercase before you even realize you made a mistake.
While this is an incredibly helpful feature for general prose, it is deeply infuriating if you work in an industry that uses complex acronyms or specialized terminology. If you are writing a technical manual about “VMware,” an HR document concerning “HRZone,” or a script referencing “CDrom,” Word will aggressively and incorrectly change your text to “Vmware,” “Hrzone,” and “Cdrom.”
You can dive into the AutoCorrect options to explicitly disable this specific grammatical rule, forcing Microsoft Word to respect exactly what you typed on the keyboard, even if it results in two capital letters.
How to Stop Word from Fixing Two Initial Capitals
You must turn off the dedicated rule within the Proofing settings.
- Open your document in Microsoft Word.
- Click on File in the top-left corner of the ribbon.
- Click on Options at the bottom of the left sidebar.
- In the Word Options window, select Proofing from the left-hand navigation pane.
- Click the AutoCorrect Options… button in the main pane.
- A new dialog box will open. Ensure you are on the very first tab labeled AutoCorrect.
- Look at the list of checkboxes at the top of the window. Locate the specific checkbox labeled Correct TWo INitial CApitals.
- Uncheck this box.
- Click OK twice to close both windows and save your changes.
Microsoft Word will instantly stop monitoring your text for capitalization speed errors. If you type “VMware” or accidentally type “THe”, the text will remain exactly as you entered it, giving you total control over the capitalization of your technical documents.