Automatic Capitalization after Colon gone

[ChrisC79]

I was typing and this feature suddenly disappeared. Now when I type it doesn't automatically capitalize after a colon anymore where it had been previously. I have no idea what I did for this to happen. I have looked where I know in the settings and can't find it. Can someone please tell me how to turn this back on?

[RoryOF]

Writer certainly never did so for me. Just in case this causes it (I don't think it does) check /Tools /Autocorrect options : Options tab, and make sure that the two check boxes before "Capitalize first letter of every sentence" are checked.

I don't know of any extension that produced this effect.

[ChrisC79]

check /Tools /Autocorrect options : Options tab, and make sure that the two check boxes before "Capitalize first letter of every sentence" are checked.

That is the first thing I checked. Thanks.

[RoryOF]

What Extensions have you installed? These will be listed under /Tools /Extension Manager

[robleyd]

Checking those two items didn't do it for me in either Calc or Writer.

[ChrisC79]

What Extensions have you installed? These will be listed under /Tools /Extension Manager

I have none installed, just the standard dictionary is there. 'English spelling and hyphenation dictionaries and thesaurus'.

[RoryOF]

As I said before, I don't recollect auto-capitalization after a colon in Writer, which I have used very heavily over ten years.

There is a discussion on this, and a solution offered, in this thread
[Solved] New sentence auto-capitalize after colon

[ChrisC79]

As I said before, I don't recollect auto-capitalization after a colon in Writer, which I have used very heavily over ten years.

There is a discussion on this, and a solution offered, in this thread
[Solved] New sentence auto-capitalize after colon

Yeah, I saw that but have no idea what they are referring to and do not understand their solution at all.

[Bill]

Automatic capitalization after a colon would be a nuisance in most cases. There are only a few cases where the first word after a colon should be capitalized: a proper name, an acronym or a complete sentence.
Capitalization After Colons

[ChrisC79]

Automatic capitalization after a colon would be a nuisance in most cases. There are only a few cases where the first word after a colon should be capitalized: a proper name, an acronym or a complete sentence.
Capitalization After Colons

I was actually looking for an answer to my problem not an unsolicited opinion as to what a complete stranger thinks is annoying. I actually require this feature every paragraph for my job.

[RoryOF]

You will note that no one else has confirmed this to be a feature in their version of OpenOffice. That suggests it may be a function introduced by some other program installed on your computer. Did you at some time have Language Tool installed? if so, it may be possible to edit the configuration file of Language Tool to produce this effect.
http://www.languagetool.org

[ChrisC79]

You will note that no one else has confirmed this to be a feature in their version of OpenOffice. That suggests it may be a function introduced by some other program installed on your computer. Did you at some time have Language Tool installed? if so, it may be possible to edit the configuration file of Language Tool to produce this effect.
http://www.languagetool.org

Thanks. I will check this as well. I am using other programs so this has been a process of elimination.

[RoryOF]

Might you at some time have used one of the theater/Screen Play formatting templates available for download from the extensions repository? https://extensions.openoffice.org

If one of these had been selected to be a default template its presence would be transparent, other than its effects showing. It would not show up as an extension.

[ChrisC79]

Might you at some time have used one of the theater/Screen Play formatting templates available for download from the extensions repository? https://extensions.openoffice.org

I do not know. Can you tell me where I need to look to find this?

[robleyd]

File | New | Templates and Documents will show all the templates that you currently have installed, along with the defaults supplied with AOO.

[ChrisC79]

File | New | Templates and Documents will show all the templates that you currently have installed, along with the defaults supplied with AOO.

There is nothing there or loaded.