# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**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 --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/where-may-i-turn-off-auto-capitalization-feature/130729)._