Hello All,
Can someone tell me how you tell me to turn off auto numbering and auto capitalization when working with a word 2010 document.
Thanks,


Robert Stigile
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Hey Robert,
Not sure about the auto-capitalization. As for the automatic numbered lists, assuming that things work as they do in Word 2007, you need to:
1. Open the File menu and go into Word Options.
2. Arrow down to the Proofing tab.
3. Tab to and activate the Autocorrect button.
4. Find Autoformat As You Type and activate that.
5. Uncheck the option for automatic numbered lists. You can do that for automatic bulleted lists, too, while your at it. Both are a pain in the butt and better dispensed with.

Hope this helps.

Tom

Couldn't agree with Tom more on this.
It is always better to use styles for numbering and bullets.
Some, however, actually like the auto numbered lists. You should be able to stop auto numbering by switching the style.
For instance, if you want to switch to body text with the first line indented (no numbering), just press control plus shift plus s. Then arrow down or press the letter b until you hit the right flavor of body text.
In the alternative, you could go back to normal style with control plus shift plus n.
As yet another option, you could jump to a paragraph which is formatted the way you like it, press control plus shift plus c to copy the format; jump to the paragraph where you want to stop auto numbering, and press control plus shift v to paste the formatting you just copied.
Lots of options.
Microsoft itself recommends styles over direct formatting like the auto numbered lists.
I may be a little prejudiced because when I want paragraphs to be numbered, they are in outline form at least three levels deep. If you use the heading styles to do the numbering, then control plus alt plus 1 applies heading 1; alt plus control plus 2 applies heading level 2 and alt plus control plus 3 applies heading level 3. In that way, you can quickly and easily have paragraphs or sections that look like the following:
1. Top level Section.
This is big picture stuff.
1.1
This is specific stuff that relates to the topic under consideration (usually in a contract) under the subject discussed at heading level 1.
(a) This is even more specific stuff which relates to that discussed under heading level 2.