Hi,
This is maybe a silly question, but why Studio doesn't insert a capital letter after a full stop? How can I fix this problem?
If a segment ends with a full stop, why the next one doesn't start with a capital letter?
I know I can set the automatc capital letter in every segment, but I want it only after a full stop, not always!
Thank you!
Hi Angela,
It's not a silly question at all. You can set Studio to capitalise the first letter of sentences, just as you can Microsoft Word for example.
Do this via File>Options:
You'll see there are other customisations you can use there too.
Hope this helps,
All the best,
Ali 
Hi Alison,
thank you. The thing is that if I flag "Capitaliz the first letter of a sentence", Studio capitalize EVERY first letter of a new segment as tou can see below:
Wheter there is a comma, a full stop, semi-colon or nothing at all. It capitalize EVERY single segment. And this is a problem because this way I have to correct manually every segments, adding or deleting the capital letter at the beginning.
Is this only a problem with my version of Trados Studio (2021)? Or maybey there is a way to correct the wrong capital letter automatically and not manually with the QA?
Thanks!
Hi Angela,
I don't use this functionality, whether in Studio or in Word. I prefer to be in total control so that my text follows my keyboard input precisely. I just presumed that the rule would work the way it does in Word. Sorry about that. There may be a setting that solves this but I don't know... Paul, do you know of a way to achieve capitalisation after a full stop in Studio in the same way as it is achieved in Microsoft Word, i.e. only after a full stop at the end of a sentence?
There is an Exceptions button to click after selecting the option I abbreviated in my previous quote and you can add individual contexts where you don't want a full stop, such as 'e.g.' or 'i.e.' but I can't see any way of adding the beginning of a segment as an exception as the dialogs don't accept regex...
Hoping Paul or someone can help you, Angela...
All the best,
Ali
Hi both,
I realise now that I misunderstood Angela's question. I read the word 'segment' as 'sentence' - sorry! I thought that the question was specifically about full stops at the end of a sentence, but in the same segment. My bad!
I should have said it is impossible to set Studio to start the next segment with a capital ONLY when the previous segment ends with a full stop.
Sorry, Angela, I misunderstood you... The default segmentation rules only end a segment after a full stop OR after some form of original file format break recognised by the software. I don't see how you could set a segmentation rule to ignore the breaks after, for example a comma, without creating enormous segments.
All the best,
Ali
Hi both,
I realise now that I misunderstood Angela's question. I read the word 'segment' as 'sentence' - sorry! I thought that the question was specifically about full stops at the end of a sentence, but in the same segment. My bad!
I should have said it is impossible to set Studio to start the next segment with a capital ONLY when the previous segment ends with a full stop.
Sorry, Angela, I misunderstood you... The default segmentation rules only end a segment after a full stop OR after some form of original file format break recognised by the software. I don't see how you could set a segmentation rule to ignore the breaks after, for example a comma, without creating enormous segments.
All the best,
Ali
Thanks Angela 
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