![]() Then you press Shift+F3 to convert the upper case letters to lower case. ![]() For inserting horizontal line, place the insert cursor where you want to insert it and head over Home tab, from Paragraph group, click drop-down button and select Horizontal Line as shown below. You hold down the Alt key as you drag the mouse over the bullets and just the first letters of each item. Out of many ways to divide document into sections, you can simply make use of Word 2010 build-in horizontal line option to insert a divider. I first wrote about it in 2004, but it’s worth repeating as it’s a clever thing you can do. And it’s a nuisance to have to correct them one at a time.īut there’s a trick you can use to convert the first letter of each item in a bulleted list to lower case. As a result, typing a new bullet list item changes the first letter to upper case, even if you want lower case (see the see also list below for an alternative). ![]() You can’t specify a different setting for bulleted or numbered lists. The only option you can set is to let Word capitalize the first word of every sentence (the default) or not (in Word 2007: Word Options Proofing > AutoCorrect button.) The problem with Word is that it’s all or nothing. We DO capitalize items in a list where one or more items are a complete sentence. Our style guide is to NOT capitalize list items when they are part of the stem sentence for example, we DON’T capitalize a list like this: Colette, one of my authors, asked if there was a way to stop Word automatically capitalizing the first word of each item in a bulleted list. ![]()
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