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Sentences—If checked, capitalizes the first letter in all Sentences in Dialogue, Action, and Notes.

Except immediately Following Shots—Shots (also known as secondary Sluglines) can be used to emphasize an object or person, with the following Action giving more detail.  To have the combined Shot and Action read as one sentence—with the Action sentence not capitalized—check this box.

Character Names—If checked, capitalizes the first letter of all Character Names in Dialogue, Action, and Notes.  To be capitalized by Auto-Correct a character name must either have been used previously in the document, or exist in the Character Name User List.

 

(When using names such as “Mark “or “Art” in your document, Auto-Correct also capitalizes the words “mark” and “art”.  To avoid this, Pause Autocorrection under the Spell menu.  Type the word with your desired capitalization, move past the word, then resume Auto-Correct by clicking on Pause Autocorrection again.)

All Caps—Makes Character Names ALL CAPS wherever they appear.

Correct Double Capitals (e.g. "Problem")—If checked, when Spell Check is run from the Spell menu it auto-corrects Sentence spacing and capitalization—without prompting you first. This way, sentence spacing and capitalization will be corrected even if Auto-Correct is off.

Treat ")" as a Sentence End in dialogue for the purposes of auto-capitalization & spacing—If checked, treats a right parenthesis in Dialogue as a sentence end, in order to format the next sentence correctly.

Correct Capitalization/Spacing when Run Manually—If checked, when Spell Check is run from the Spell menu it auto-corrects Sentence spacing and capitalization—without prompting you first. This way, sentence spacing and capitalization will be corrected even if Auto-Correct is off.

Ignore Capitalization when Checking Words—If checked, allows unusual Capitalization of words and sentences when Spell Checking a document. Unchecked, Spell Check expects correct Capitalization of sentences, proper names, etc.