Turn On or Off Capitalize the First Letter of Each Sentence with the Touch keyboard in Windows 11

Capitalize first letter in each sentence touch keyboard

This article explains how to enable or disable a Touch keyboard feature that allows you to capitalize the first letter in each sentence in Windows 11.

Touchscreen devices without physical keyboards will see a built-in virtual keyboard called a Touch keyboard. It can be handy for these devices.

With Windows, many touch-enabled applications will automatically open the touch keyboard when you launch the apps. For example, the Touch keyboard will automatically open when tapping where you want to enter text in a form or text field.

When using the Touch keyboard in Windows, you can also turn on or off a feature to capitalize the first letter in each sentence with the Touch keyboard; the steps below show you how.

Enable or disable capitalizing the first letter in each sentence with the Touch keyboard

As described above, when using the built-in Touch keyboard in Windows, you can enable or disable capitalizing the first letter of each sentence.

Here’s how to do that.

First, open the Windows Settings app.

You can do that by clicking on the Start menu and selecting Settings. Or press the keyboard shortcut (Windows key + I) to launch the Settings app.

When the Setting app opens, click the Time & language button on the left.

Windows 11 time and language button in the Settings app

On the right, select the Typing tile to expand it.

windows 11 time and language typing tile
Windows 11 time and language typing tile

Select and expand the Touch keyboard tile on the Time & language -> Typing settings pane, then check the box next to Capitilize the first letter of each sentence to enable it.

To disable it, uncheck the box.

Windows 11 enable or disable capitalize first letter of each sentence.

You can close the Settings app when done.

Enable or disable capitalize the first letter of each sentence with the Touch keyboard via the Registry

Another way users can turn on or off the Touch keyboard to capitalize the first letter of each sentence in Windows 11 is to use the Windows Registry Editor.

First, open the Windows Registry, and navigate to the folder key below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\TabletTip\1.7

If you don’t see the 1.7 folder key, right-click on the TabletTip key, then create the subkey (1.7) folders.

windows registry advanced key

Right-click the 1.7 folder key’s right pane and select New -> DWORD (32-bit) Value. Next, type a new key named EnableAutoShiftEngage.

Double-click the new key item name (EnableAutoShiftEngage) and make sure the Base option is Decimal, and then update the Value data:

  • Type 1 to enable this feature.
  • Type 0 to disable this feature.

Save your changes and restart your computer.

That should do it!

Conclusion:

This post showed you how to enable or disable capitalizing the first letter of each sentence when using the Touch keyboard in Windows 11. If you find any errors above or have something to add, please use the comments form below.

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