Automatic capitalization is meant to help you by fixing incorrect capitalization while typing. While working with writings that do not need capitalization, this becomes a hectic part, however, and you may be wondering how you may turn off Auto capitalization.

Note that, when you disable the auto-correct feature for capitalization, your changes apply to all documents you create in Word.

Steps to follow

• Click on the Microsoft Office button in Word to open a menu.
• Click the Word Options button, located at the bottom of the menu.
• Select the “Proofing“ option from the left panel of the Word Options window.
• Click the “AutoCorrect Options“button, near the top of the Proofing screen.
• Uncheck the box next to each type of automatic capitalization you want to disable.
• Click the “Exceptions“ button to create specific rules for certain words.
• Click the “OK“ button in the Exceptions window and the “OK“ button in the AutoCorrect window to save your changes.

How to Reset MS Word to Its Default Settings

Microsoft Word is used by many big organizations, business cooperations, and individuals as their primary processing program. Since it is an important software, then we must know how to reset it to default settings in case of any failure.

Unfortunately, there is no button in Word to reset the program to its default settings. However, you can rename Word’s global template to see if that fixes its problems. If Word continues to have issues, or it runs very slow, another option is to delete Word’s registry key. This forces Word back to the original default settings.

Rename the Global Template File

• Make sure that all word programs and any Microsoft work space program is closed before you start the process.
• Right-click the Windows “Start” button and select “Open Windows Explorer.“
• Browse to “C:\Users(your user name)\AppData\ Roaming\Microsoft\Templates.” Sometimes you can’t see the AppData file since it is hidden. You can type the full path into your Explorer address window and press Enter to go to the Templates subdirectory.
• Right-click on the “Normal.dot” file and choose “Rename.” Type in a name like “OldNormal.dot” or “Normalold.dot.”
• Open Word. The program will recreate the Normal.dot file based on its default settings.

Using Microsoft’s FixIt Wizard

• First download the Fix It program from Microsoft support page. Note that this should be done only if Word is running very slow or if renaming the global template did not fix your Word issues. Close Word or other Office products before you run the Fix It wizard.
• Click the “Microsoft Fix It” button in the middle of the page.
• Click “Run,” in the File Download dialog box and follow the steps in the Fix it Wizard.
• Open Word after you have run the Fix It program. Microsoft Office will automatically run the Setup program to reinstall the registry key.

Fix It Manually

• Close Word and any Microsoft Office programs you have running.
• Click the Windows “Start” button, type “regedit“(Alternatively press Windows button + R) in the Search field and press “Enter” to open the Registry Editor.
• Browse through the registry keys by double-clicking on the registry names in the left pane to expand them in the right. According to Microsoft, the key for Word 2010 is located in “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Word.”
• Select the key that you intend to delete, click the “File” drop–down menu and choose “Export.” Type a name for the file and click “Save” so you have a backup of the Word registry entry you are about to delete.
• Select the registry key again, click “Edit” and click “Delete.” Click “Yes” to confirm your decision and close the Registry Editor.
• Open Word and allow the computer to rebuild the registry key from the Setup program.

Rename Word’s global template rather than delete it. This will preserve any macros styles or Auto-text entries you created in case you need them again.

How to Reset Styles in Word 2007

• Open Word 2007 and click the Office button to browse to the Word document with styles to reset.
• Click the “Home” tab if it is not already enabled. Click the “Select“ menu, choose “Select All“ to reset all the styles in the document.
• Click the small down-pointing arrow in the right corner of the Styles section of the ribbon to open the Styles menu.
• Click the “Clear All” option at the top of the Styles drop-down menu. Note that the styles are reset, but the menu does not close. If you highlighted just one section of the Word 2007 document and would like to reset another section, highlight that text and repeat this process.
• Click the small “X” in the top-right corner of the Styles drop-down menu to close the Styles menu.