Stop auto-correction

I'm typing up a spec sheet and its very important the word 'true' stays as lower case in a table. But no matter what I do (I've turned off auto-correction) it keeps changing it to 'TRUE' If I try and undo the whole word gets removed.
Does anyone know how to fix this really annoying bug?

OK, my mistake. Pages was treating the table like a Numbers table and reformatting it. Setting the table's cell format to Text fixed it.

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