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title: How do I start my typewriter (text box) annotation with a lowercase letter?
description: If you prefer not to have the first letter of your text automatically capitalized and instead want to start a typewriter (text box) annotation with a lowercase letter, you can follow one of these suggestions.
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# How do I start my typewriter (text box) annotation with a lowercase letter?

## If you prefer not to have the first letter of your text automatically capitalized and instead want to start a typewriter (text box) annotation with a lowercase letter, you can follow one of these suggestions.

Auto-capitalization is an OS wide setting.  There are two ways to manage the setting.

 

**A. Auto-Capitalization can be disabled in the settings app** of the iPad if you do not ever want auto-capitalization:

1. Navigate to the settings app of the iPad
2. Tap "General"
3. Tap "Keyboard"
4. Turn "auto-capitalization" off (grey not green)

**B. If you do want auto-capitalization** most of the time, there is a keyboard shortcut to override and make the letter lowercase for occasional use:

1. Tap "shift" on your keyboard. Do not hold it down.
2. Tap the letter you are starting with and it will type a lowercase letter.

 

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