Even though there is no full stop, Word thinks it’s the end of a sentence when the carriage return/line feed key is pressed so it automatically turns the next characcter into a capital.

One way out is to delete the capitalised letter and retype it. Word then realises that this is your intention and doesn’t change it.

This is a bit tedious, though.

To set the system so that it never puts the capital letter in after a  new line, change the autocorrect options.

This is done by selecting Tools>Autocorrect from the menu bar and, under the Autocorrect tab, removing the check mark from Capitalise the first letter of sentences.

One day Jeremy decided to write a story for his friends but he could not do everything he wanted to do because the toolbars were missing.

Jeremy went to see his friend PC Computerman and told him the sad tale.

‘What you need to do my little friend’, said PC Computerman, ‘is go to the menu bar at the top of the screen and click on View and then slide the mouse pointer down to Toolbars. 

‘Let the mouse hover over the line for a second and a list of all the possible toolbars will appear.  If you click on one of the ones you want, it will be displayed at the top of the screen.  To get another one, do the same thing.

‘The important ones are “Standard” and “Formatting“.’ 

‘It’s magic,’ said Jeremy.

‘I think I might be able to use this to find other toolbars like the ‘Drawing‘ and the ‘Picture‘ if they don’t appear said Jeremy.

Jeremy decided to have a try while all his friends were having a cup of hot coffee and a bar of chocolate.

By Andrew Stern Reuters -A “surge” of overused words and phrases formed a “perfect storm” of “post-9/11″ cliches in 2007, according to a U.S. university’s annual list of words and phrases that deserve to be banned.Choosing from among 2,000 submissions, the public relations department at Michigan’s Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie targeted 19 affronts to the English language in its well-known jab at the worlds of media, sports, advertising and politics…. 

This was reported on BT Yahoo! today. Is one persons cliché regarded as normal language by others?

Perhaps some of these are not actually cliches but just annoying was of talking.

It’s interesting that a web site is reporting a criticism of words used about the internet.

“Webinar” made the list as a tiresome non-word combining Web and seminar that a contributor said “belongs in the same school of non-thought that brought us e-anything and i-anything.”

Surely all words were non-words at some time. Where do new words come from otherwise? I don’t particularly like this one but it serves a purpose.

One of my pet hates is the athletics commentater who refers to a new personal best as ‘a lifetimes best’. Doesn’t he allow for more improvement in the future?

This is the link to the web site

http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current/default.html

Does a little itch get into your brain when you think there’s a mistake in a book?

Do you have to scratch it before you can go on?

I do.

When John thinks about phoning Barbara, dials her number (did ‘dials’ cause an itch?) and starts to speak and at the end of the conversation Barbara thinks she is glad he phoned, there is a change of point of view. That will give me the itch.

And when the detective finds evidence by a coincidence and then finds out that the evidence was planted so that he’d find it. That gives me an itch. How did the criminal know the coincidence was going to occur? It happened to Rebus in the book I’ve just read.

When I get the itch, I start to worry about the other problems I might have with the book. That’s not good for me or the author.

Keir

Do you use Microsoft Word to write your stories?

Do you know all the tools it provides to make life easier?

Things like automatically double spacing, controlling the spell checker, numbering pages, indenting.

Hopefully info on this site can help.

Respond with some ideas so they can be passed on.

Keir