Comments on: All Caps Isn’t Really Uppercase

By: Rashmi

Rashmi — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 12:52:15 +0000

How to make style for a name of company which is typed in capitals for eg. XEROX to small caps in body text.

By: Chuck Nigash

Chuck Nigash — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:58:20 +0000

Oops Dept: 2 years behind.

By: Chuck Nigash

Chuck Nigash — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:57:22 +0000

I’m a year behind in joining this discussion, and I wished I had found it earlier.

Users need easy access to true uppercase through GREP or Find/Change as well as Char & Para Styles formatting.

Consider print media today, essentially tagging words with All Caps for print and learning later that for online & archive, the bottom drops out and they are left with lowercase or mixed case. While we can create a shortcut key for Uppercase, CS5 could make profound use of true uppercase in Char & Para Styles, etc.

By: Eugene Tyson

Eugene Tyson — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:40:21 +0000

Thanks a million, I’ll look into some more.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:38:43 +0000

Eugene, I believe this can be done via GREP in other programs, but not in InDesign at this time. There's more on changing case via GREP here on this post.

By: Eugene Tyson

Eugene Tyson — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:29:03 +0000

Is there a way of finding all the text that is typed in Uppercase and changing it all to Upper- and lowercase?

I can’t seem to find a way to Find/Change all typeset Uppercase to Title Case, I have to enter the menus to apply this formatting.

Any ideas?

By: Boris

Boris — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:15:11 +0000

Thanks. I also have found, that your words about formatting can be seen if to make export in Indesign Tagged Text

By: Klaus Nordby

Klaus Nordby — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:14:19 +0000

Thank’s for the “Smart Title Case” script tip, Eugene & Anne-Marie! I hadn’t heard of it, but it’s just what I need — now and then. No more manual retyping of English prepositions and articles in titles!

Thanks, Dave Saunders — you splendid JavaScripter wizard you.

By: Eugene Tyson

Eugene Tyson — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:31:37 +0000

Sorry, it’s a script, words baffle me on Mondays.

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:26:27 +0000

The "Smart Title Case" plug-in that Eugene refers to is actually a script, not a plug-in, as far as I know (let me know if I'm wrong, Eugene). You can find that script on Dave Saunders' blog. Here's the page describing it: Smart Title Case Script It's a CS2 script but it runs fine in CS3 if you add a "Version 4.0 Scripts" subfolder in your Scripts folder and put the script inside it, as David explained in this post.