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?

You can fix the problem just by going to the Type menu and choosing Change Case. Then select the most appropriate option.

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.

Choose UPPERCASE when you do feel like shouting.
And lowercase, well, that’s for when you’re working on a book of poetry by e e cummings. So you can change this:
To this:
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