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• • October 9, 2014 at 12:32 pm #70950
    Masoud Moghaddam

    Member

    Hi

    I have many English words in many pages that they should be Sentence case, I couldn’t find this feature in drop menu “Case” in Character Styles or Paragraph Styles dialog boxes. Why Adobe hasn’t placed this feature in this drop menu? Now how should I apply this feature to my words? Should I use GREP commands?

    Thank you in advance

  • October 9, 2014 at 1:25 pm #70951
    David Blatner

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    Unfortunately, there is no automatic way to do this. I have seen scripts that can make the change (you run the script and it changes all instances of text in a particular paragraph style to the case you want). But generally, I suggest you assign a keyboard shortcut to the Sentence Case feature and then you can apply it very quickly.

    • October 10, 2014 at 1:43 am #70957
      Masoud Moghaddam

      Member

      David; Firstly I apologize for a bit mistake, My mean “Title case” and I mistook it with “Sentence case” because I have words that they should change their first letter to “Capitalize”, Anyhow this command like “Sentences case” absents in “Character Styles” or “Paragraph Styles”.
      I follow your suggestion and assign a shortcut for “Title case” and when I select my word and use my customized shortcut nothing happens and the first my words still in lowercase form not Capital!?!.

      When I choose “Selection Tool (V)” and select my text frame only; my customized shortcut appears in front of the “Title case” pop-up menu (Type > Change case > Title case),but when I switch to “Type Tool” and select a text nothing show in front of the “Title case” command in above path??!. This is the first time I face to this problem about customized shortcut and previously I assigned and use my shortcuts without problem like this.
      Do you know why the shortcut is disappear when I select a text and it come back when I select the text frame only? I confused.

      P.S. Dear David; I couldn’t find edit button in this page to edit my question and correct “Sentence case” to “Title case” would you please to edit it?

      Thank you

  • November 29, 2022 at 12:43 pm #14375326
    josh@attainmentcompany.com

    Participant

    I know—this is very old—BUT, I’ve still had this problem of not being able to use Title Case in InDesign styles. After perusing my GREP in InDesign book :) I found that you can create a workaround by creating a character style that is “all caps”, then in the Paragraph Style, add a GREP style that applies that style to the first letter of each word:

    Apply Style: Uppercase_first
    To Text: \<.

    This tells it to look for any character at the beginning of every word and apply the style.

  • February 2, 2024 at 9:33 am #14399575
    Mark Cooper

    Participant

    Just picked up on your work-around Josh as I have many forms to amend to Title case and this works a perfectly. Thanks.

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