Annoying...

[ffutures]

Since I'm writing the fanfic game I've added the word fanfic to Word's dictionary. But for some reason every time I type it Word insists on capitalising it, presumably because it thinks it's a name. It isn't showing up as an error if I put it back to lower case, but I'll probably use the word quite a few times - I really don't want to keep converting it manually. Anyone got any idea how I persuade it to leave it lower case?

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[smallship1.livejournal.com]

Guess work: if when you added it it had a capital letter, that will be the only form of it Word knows. Add it again lower case and you should be fine.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Wrong, unfortunately. It assumes that the lower case is an exception, or figures it out from context, or something.

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

Assuming you're not using version 2007....

- From the Tools menu, select the Options choice.
- If it's not already selected, bring the Spelling & Grammar tab to the front.
- Select the Custom Dictionaries button.
- There will be one or more .DIC files listed, probably only CUSTOM.DIC. Select each of these in succession, clicking the Modify button.
- Scroll through the alphabetical list of words contained within the .DIC file and look for Fanfic. Use the Delete button to clear it out.
- Back your way out to the document you're editing, find an instance of the word "fanfic" with no capital letter, and add it to the spelling checker.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks! That seems to have done the trick.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Actually it didn't in the end. For some reason it was in autocorrect too, so I had to delete it there.

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

I was going to bring that up next if my first suggestion didn't work :)