computer capitalizes words in sentence when it's not supposed to be capitalized

[BJP]

I am trying to get information for my friend. He has just recently purchased a computer and is now taking college courses. In his writing class, when typing paragraphs, he has to double space them. When he hits the enter button twice to double space the next line, the first word of the next sentence automatically capitalizes after he hits the space bar in the next line. Can you please help us to correct this.

[Kip]

I would guess that whatever program he is typing in is set to automatically capitalize the first letter of each paragraph.  For example, OpenOffice has the ability to automatically capitalize the first letter of each sentence.

The program should have a setting to disable that feature.
What program is he using; Microsoft Word?

[BJP]

I think microsoft word or office 12 or something. I'm not sure. Thanks

[Kip]

Here is are some instructions for how to disable the Microsoft Word AutoFormat feature.  [Link]

[Geek-9pm]

Stop using double space. Don't hit enter twice.
Do your work normally. Save it. Later when ready activate double space before you print or export your document.
http://geek9pm.com/pix/line_space.png

[Mulreay]

Ok one thing that needs to be said... Can you tell us what it is you or said friend is using to type this.. before we all speculate. Is it word? Wordworks? notepad? wordpad? Let's be specific here people.

[BC_Programmer]

Well it's a word processor program, like OpenOffice or word- Notepad doesn't auto-capitalize, you see.

And whatever the program, it will surely have a double-spacing option.

[quaxo]

Word and OpenOffice both have an automatic function to put in double spacing. For Word, it's in the 'Paragraph' menu option (pre-2007)(one of the top menus, don't recall which one). For 2007, it's on the 'Home' tab, 'Paragraph' section, right next to the alignment buttons.

In any version, you can set exactly how much spacing you want between the lines. Default for Office 2007 (and might be for previous versions, don't remember) is 1.15 spacing. When using this feature, you don't need to press enter to double space and it won't capitalize every first letter of every line. Just type normally and it will double space as you go. No need to edit any autoformat settings or anything else.

[Geek-9pm]

quaxo,
Thanks, that is want I wanted to say. 

[patio]

Let's be specific here people.

Lighten up....

All the responses would apply to any word processing app out there...