Tip of the Week: Changing Case
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Did you ever type a bunch of text in InDesign, only to notice afterward that your caps lock key was down? What do you do then? Retype it all? Use it as a very LOUD design element?
Title Case capitalizes every word, even some that you might not want capitalized in a title, like “a” “the” and so on. If you need a more capable method, check out the script Smart Title Case by Dave Saunders. It has been around for almost ten years but still works perfectly in InDesign CC 2014.
Sentence case capitalizes the first word after punctuation marks like periods, question marks, and exclamation points.
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All well and good, but is there any way to somehow pick up the attributes of a changed piece of text, or to apply a new case style to different areas at text all at once? For this… this is what I yearn for.
There is a script on the adobe forums that will allow paragraph or character styles to have their case changed using an interface: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/899486
Otherwise you can make keyboard shortcuts of the cases so that selections can be easily changed; or use a script called togglecase by Ariel Waldon.
My solution is to pop the CapLk key off my keyboards when I purchase them. It drives others crazy when they use my keyboard, but I never have this problem. The number of times I have would have liked a CapsLk on my keyboard in the past 5 years I can count on one hand.
That said, all of your points are valid, and relevant if you didn’t type the text in the first place.
…it would be most helpful if one could include this in a character- or paragraph- (or even object-) style.
I have not found yet that this is possible.