How do I capitalise first letter of sentence

Hi there. Just moved over to Mac and Pages, and love it, for the most part, except it doesn't capitalise the first letter of a sentence. for instance the "f" in "for" there does not come up automatically as "F" as it does in Word, and I believe in previous versions of Pages.
I'm in Version 5.1 (1769), and Mac os x 10.9.2.
Any ideas, folks?
Cheers, Matt.

If you never had Pages '09 before, no you will not have it. Only people who upgraded.
There is a huge difference between Pages 5 and Pages '09, the previous version.
Pages 5 is missing 100 features and is quite buggy. IMHO it is really an unanounced beta version.
Pages '09 is superior in almost every area, with only a few minor exceptions.
Even Pages 5's touted compatibility with iDevices is debatable and has the price of an unstable file format that is biting a few users in the bum.
You won't be able to miss features you never had but the biggest concern I have is over the complex, proprietary file format that is practically unrecoverable when things go wrong, as they seem to do. One that Apple regularly dumps. Pages 5 and 5.01 can't even open Pages 5.1 format files, and Pages 5 damages previous formats.
Peter

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>
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