# Where may I turn off auto-capitalization feature? **URL:** \ **Category:** Newcomer Central\ **Tags:** configuration\ **Created:** [October 30, 2022, 12:44am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/where-may-i-turn-off-auto-capitalization-feature/130729 "2022-10-30T00:44:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HayesJohnHayes](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/hayesjohnhayes/32/27311_2.png) [@HayesJohnHayes](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/HayesJohnHayes)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 12:44am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/where-may-i-turn-off-auto-capitalization-feature/130729/1 "2022-10-30T00:44:45Z")
I type: **1. a4** and Scrivener feature after pressing space bar becomes: 1. A4. How do I stop this feature? I am writing a chess book with algebraic notation. It will be impossible to write this book, if unable to disable feature. Thank you in advance, John Hayes ---
**Author:** ![November\_Sierra](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/november_sierra/32/41086_2.png) [@November\_Sierra](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/November_Sierra)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 1:00am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/where-may-i-turn-off-auto-capitalization-feature/130729/2 "2022-10-30T01:00:49Z")
According to the Scrivener manual for Windows (I hope that’s correct, I’m a Mac user) you’ll find the setting via Tools → Options… → Corrections: “Fix capitalization of sentences”. And maybe also (don’t) “Capitalize ‘i’”. ---
**Author:** ![HayesJohnHayes](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/hayesjohnhayes/32/27311_2.png) [@HayesJohnHayes](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/HayesJohnHayes)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 1:03am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/where-may-i-turn-off-auto-capitalization-feature/130729/3 "2022-10-30T01:03:38Z")
thanks - I found the answer here… > [@Automatic Capitalization](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/automatic-capitalization/38575): > > I’m getting a little tired of hunting through the new Preferences panel to find this stuff. So far this morning I’ve spent more time trying to get S3 to behave than I have actually writing… The latest wrinkle? Automatic capitalization. Sometimes I will type a period, or an ellipsis (which Scrivener seems to think is a period) and the next character is capitalized, per screenshot attached. There is no way to defeat this automatic capitalization, a period will be followed by a capital lette… Hayes ---
**Author:** ![November\_Sierra](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/november_sierra/32/41086_2.png) [@November\_Sierra](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/November_Sierra)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 1:13am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/where-may-i-turn-off-auto-capitalization-feature/130729/4 "2022-10-30T01:13:29Z")
Sorry, I assumed from your profile that it was Win-Scrivener related. ---
**Author:** ![GoalieDad](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/goaliedad/32/28584_2.png) [@GoalieDad](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/GoalieDad)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 7:31am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/where-may-i-turn-off-auto-capitalization-feature/130729/5 "2022-10-30T07:31:35Z")
File\>options\>Corrections will see ability to adjust capitalization. ![cc](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/uploads/default/original/3X/e/3/e319c9a9fed15f2e48b3f78ddc7c2e778f19734a.png) ---
**Author:** ![HayesJohnHayes](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/hayesjohnhayes/32/27311_2.png) [@HayesJohnHayes](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/HayesJohnHayes)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/where-may-i-turn-off-auto-capitalization-feature/130729/6 "2022-10-30T18:55:16Z")
got it, thank you very much ---
**Author:** ![ShawnDriscoll](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/shawndriscoll/32/16393_2.png) [@ShawnDriscoll](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/ShawnDriscoll)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 1:22am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/where-may-i-turn-off-auto-capitalization-feature/130729/7 "2022-10-31T01:22:24Z")
Thank you for that screenshot. I’m turning that stuff off right now. ---
**Author:** ![republicsfury](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/48db29/32.png) [@republicsfury](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/republicsfury)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 11:48pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/where-may-i-turn-off-auto-capitalization-feature/130729/8 "2025-08-23T23:48:03Z")
Scrivner should NEVER start out with autocorrect capitalizing the letters after a punctuation mark. I say this because it is a writer’s program. Writers write dialogue. You don’t capitalize the letter following the dialogue. How do I set it so that this stops? ---
**Author:** ![kewms](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/kewms/32/15720_2.png) [@kewms](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/kewms)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 2:05am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/where-may-i-turn-off-auto-capitalization-feature/130729/9 "2025-08-24T02:05:32Z")
Actually, it’s more complicated than that. If the line of dialogue is followed by a dialogue tag, then there’s no capital letter: “Watch out!” he shouted. But if it’s an ordinary sentence, it should be capitalized. He shouted, “Watch out!” The men in the boat couldn’t hear him, though. And of course writers, even fiction writers, write a lot of things that aren’t dialogue as well. In any case, in Mac Scrivener you’ll find the option in the Settings → Corrections pane.