How do you automatically get a capital at beginning of a sentence?

Go to apple icon click system preferences then text or keyboard then tick boxs automatically insert capital and the next box so all 3 boxes ticked it will then insert capital at start of new sentence and i made i

" microsoft does it"

What program?

"apple must do it too????"

What program?

How do you automatically get a capital at the begining of every sentance?

Press the caps lock key.

I've never encountered any application in which the first word of a sentence is automatically capitalized without my doing anything.

Lots of mobile devices will do this... mostly due to their lack of a hardware keyboard. It makes it a little easier to type since they are fairly inconvenient to type on to start with. Applications like Word will also do this (although Word's "let me do that for you" way of making corrections drives me nuts and I always turn it off). I'm not aware of this being an integrated part of any desktop OS. These are the kinds of things that are causing Apple to move OS X towards iOS. There are so many people out there with iOS devices. They expect their computers to behave like their phones. If you want a capital at the beginning of a sentence, press the shift key. It's not that difficult. If you're going to be typing and using proper punctuation, etc... an extra "shift" here and there shouldn't slow you down much.

Ah, yes. I was talking about computer applications.

Microsoft Word has a preference option to "Capitalize first letter of sentences" in the AutoCorrect pref. In a quick check of Pages, I didn't see the same option. To echo sig, what Apple program were you asking about?

Fabrice Cinquin wrote:

I obviously know how to get a capital letter, ds store.

The Caps Lock has a special feature of placing a capital letter at the beginning of every sentence.

Go ahead, try it. 🙂

Someone in an Apple store told me once but I didn't write it down... and forgot. 😟

So go back and ask again.

If you care enough about communicating clearly to realize that capitalizing the first letter of each sentence is helpful, then doing it the same way everyone has done it for a hundred years won't be too much of a strain for you to bear. Press "Shift".

i presume you mean in the app Pages.

go to FORMAT... STYLE... hit the advanced options tool... select CAPITALISATION and choose Title Case...

now go to write something and you'll see all the text will be Capitals, but if you turn your CAP LOCKS on, then you will be able to write in lower case but Pages will autocorrect the first letter of the word directly after a full stop.

Don't know if it will be much use to you right now, but I feel it's probably more use than some people (not naming names) on this particular thread.

Now I shall sprinkle you all with magic fairy dust love and stride off into the sunset.

xox

Justjessie, my first visit to the site and you solved my problem which was the same as Fabrice's

in seconds. Thank you.

i am having this problem to please someone help

OK, going to Format, Text, Advanced, Capitalization and then setting the tabs lock doesn't work in OS 10.11. 😟

We all know to hit the shift key at the start of a new sentence. We're trying to solve the problem when for-whatever-reason it doesn't work, and we only discover it mid-sentence and have to go back to correct it. In Word, it's not a problem; it's recognized as a new sentence, and the program capitalizes the first letter for you. This is especially useful when typing a list.

New day. New OS. Has anyone found the solution, yet?

It needs sorting! come on Apple! please add a toggle switch to turn on Initial capitalisation of the first word in a sentence in Apple mail and in Pages! on OS X!!