Why isn't autocorrect working on two initial capital letters?

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I have my autocorrect settings set to change two initial caps to only
capitalize the first letter. But the word "STrymon" (the name of a
river in Macedonia) doesn't get changed to "Strymon." I looked in my
autocorrect exceptions and there was nothing about allowing this word
to remain uncorrected (the only entry I have in the exceptions for
initial caps is the term "IDs"). Is there any reason why this isn't
being changed---and what do I have to do to get Word 2002 to change
these initial two capital letters?
 
Never mind. I just changed it myself, and the red (spell check) line
was still there. After inserting "Strymon" into my dictionary, I then
checked it--and Word dutifully changed STrymon to Strymon. OK that
mystery is solved--evidently Word has to have a word in the
dictionary, to change the initial two caps. Is this correct?
 
Sort of. What it amounts to is that AutoCorrect doesn't work on "misspelled"
words because the spelling correction is considered the first priority
and/or because Word may say to itself, "I don't know this word, so for all I
know the user may WANT to have it written this way." In many cases, this
would be true.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 
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