Hi Kenneth,

I understand the capitalization part... it's the FONT that gets me.

If I set the font to Arial 9 before typing the word "page " I get "Page " in Arial 9. Then I click on the page-number icon in the toolbar for Header/Footer and it comes up Times New Roman 12 (which *is* the form's default font). Then the word that I type - "of " comes up in the default font and so does the total pages number after I click that icon.

I'm just sick and tired of changing it every time and figure there MUST be some place to set this.

thanks

>I don't think it's a header / footer issue. It's the auto correcting and it just happens to be in the footer. If you simply type "page" on a line, it will capitalize it as well becuse it's at the beginning.
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>Two ways to fix that. I have Office 2000, but I think the other versions would be similar. Under Tools, then Options, then Spelling & Grammer, click on the Settings button. Uncheck Capitialzation in the Grammar section.
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>The other is to enter it in the footer, it changes it, then go back and edit it and put a lower case p in place of the capital one. Word then just marks it with a green underline, but doesn't auto-correct it.
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>>I've thought this was a bug since Word97, but since it persists even in Word 2003 I guess I must be doing something wrong...
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>>In the footer I like to tab to the far right and type "page xx of yy" using the hdr/ftr 'toolbar' to get the page number and the page count.
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>>That Word always insists on capitalizing the "p" of "page" I understand. But Word's choice of fonts for the numbers (and thus, of course, the word "of") is what is SOOOOoooooooooo aggravating. It looks like it insists on using the default font (of the form) even if I set fonts manually to Arial 8-pt just before I type the "p" of "page". The word "Page" comes out in the correct font but the rest of the line ALWAYS uses the default form font/size.
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>>Can someone end my misery by telling me how to do this the CORRECT WAY?
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>>Thanks