My Word randomly capitalizes the letter "i" at the start of words, how do I get it to stop

Anonymous
2013-07-11T17:21:59+00:00

About 2/3 of the time, my Microsoft Word autocapitalizes the letter i in front of words, much like it would for the word "I"; so a sentence might read "I was walking In the park, where I met my friend John Inside the cafe", capitalizing In and Inside.  I can go back and correct it and it doesn't recapitalize but it's really annoying, and I can't figure out how to disable it.

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-11-12T20:26:39+00:00

    I think I figured out what was going on. If you have a space to the right of the cursor and you type "i", it assumes it's a standalone word. So the problem occurs when I accidentally end up inserting text before a space. But the space may not be visible, of course. It's not really a bug: how is poor Word supposed to know that you don't mean "i" to be a word if there is a space both before and after. (I guess one solution would be to de-capitalize immediately as soon as you add some other letters.)

    Deleting "i" from the autocorrect list solves this completely, of course.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-11-08T17:07:32+00:00

    I just changed my font from New York to all Times New Roman, saved; closed; reopened, and it stopped capitalizing all words that start with i. It really is a font issue. There seem to be a few that have this inherently in their programming and you can't change that about that font. You'll just have to switch fonts. Sorry.

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  4. Stefan Blom 353.5K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2018-11-01T22:43:30+00:00

    No, brand new install, first time typing new document. I noticed it right away.

    A custom *.acl file could have been copied into Word's folder. Or perhaps the language of text is set to something other than you expect.

    Which version of Office are you running?

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-10-31T00:49:14+00:00

    No, brand new install, first time typing new document. I noticed it right away.

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