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Old 02-22-2015, 06:33 PM
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Here's an example sentence:



"He lives in New Jersey but Commutes to New York."

C in Commutes shouldn't be in upper case. Is there a fast way to find only the letters that shouldn't be in upper case and leave the right ones alone? I'm proofing a very long document with several such errors in every paragraph. Looking for a way to speed up things. Thanks.
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Old 02-22-2015, 11:10 PM
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There is no magic bullet for this. You could go some of the way by noting which words or phrases regularly repeat incorrectly then use a macro to replace them with the correct versions, but Word does not know the difference between (say) New Jersey the place and New Jersey a new sweater.

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Old 02-23-2015, 09:09 PM
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That's a good idea. I'll try to keep track and see if there are some that always repeat.
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