dahla@yoda.byu.edu (11/13/90)
My wife has spent endless hours of dictation for her boss that wants all of the text in lower case letters instead of having it all in UPPER CASE like he used to want it. Is there any possiblity of changing all of the characters to lower case? She can then go back and replace the first letter of each sentence with a cap. Please e-mail or post Thanks in advance. al dahla@yoda.byu.edu
a544@mindlink.UUCP (Rick McCormack) (11/13/90)
in an article by dahla@yoda.byu.edu he needs to convert some upper case to lower case, preferrably in MS Word. No can do. HOWEVER!! McSink, vers. 7.0 can!!! This DA will allow his wife to quickly paste the offensive ALL CAPS into a screen, convert all upper case to lower AND automatically re-capitalize the first word of each sentence. Hope this helps - I know I have found it handy in the two days I have had this EXTREMELY helpful DA.
wjb1@quads.uchicago.edu (William J. Buikema) (11/14/90)
In article <291dahla@yoda.byu.edu> dahla@yoda.byu.edu writes: >My wife has spent endless hours of dictation for her boss that wants all of the >text in lower case letters instead of having it all in UPPER CASE like he used >to want it. Is there any possiblity of changing all of the characters to lower >case? She can then go back and replace the first letter of each sentence with a >cap. I've always wondered how to do this in Word. I can find no mention of it in the manual, only going from lowercase to uppercase. However, it seems that command-shift-K will simply toggle the case of the selection. This works for going to uppercase or to lowercase. Learn something every day... Bill
bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) (11/14/90)
How about 26 global substitutions?
I suppose I should put a :-) here. Or maybe a :-(
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"If you're not a docter, you're just pants" -- Ian D., age 3 1/2walkere@turing.cs.rpi.edu (Ellen Walker) (11/14/90)
Bad news for dahla@yoda.byu.edu's wife: command-shift-K will probably not do what she wants. Command-shift-K toggles the "all-caps" character style. Therefore, if the original characters typed in were lower-case, then command-shift-k will toggle between upper & lower. However, if the original characters typed in were upper-case (shift key down), then "all-caps" or not, they will look like capital letters. Ellen Walker walkere@turing.cs.rpi.edu
chh9@quads.uchicago.edu (Conrad Halton Halling) (11/14/90)
In article <291dahla@yoda.byu.edu> dahla@yoda.byu.edu writes: >[Using Word] is there any possiblity of changing all of the characters to >lower case? She can then go back and replace the first letter of each sentence >with a cap. Amazingly, considering the number of bells and whistles Microsoft has loaded Word up with, they seem to have neglected this. If you have access to WriteNow 2.x, save your file in RTF format, open it using WriteNow, and use the Change Case command in the Edit menu to convert your text to lower case. Save the file again in RTF format, then reopen it with Word. -- Conrad Halling chh9@midway.uchicago.edu
clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) (11/14/90)
In article <1990Nov13.192333.11999@midway.uchicago.edu> wjb1@quads.uchicago.edu (William J. Buikema) writes: |In article <291dahla@yoda.byu.edu> dahla@yoda.byu.edu writes: |>My wife has ... boss that wants all of the |>text in lower case letters instead of having it all in UPPER CASE like he used |>to want it. Is there any possiblity of changing all of the chars to lower |>case? She can then replace the first letter of each sentence with a |>cap. | |I've always wondered how to do this in Word. I can find no mention of it in |the manual, only going from lowercase to uppercase. However, it seems that |command-shift-K will simply toggle the case of the selection. This works for |going to uppercase or to lowercase. Learn something every day... Bzzzt. Command-shift-K is the keyboard shortcut for toggling the "All Caps" text style in Word. It doesn't globally toggle case, and only works one way. For example, say I start with this line: "This is a line of text in Word; it contains 13 words and 2 numerals." If I select this line and hit Cmd-Shift-K, I get: "THIS IS A LINE OF TEXT IN WORD; IT CONTAINS 13 WORDS AND 2 NUMERALS." Just as if I had typed it with the Caps Lock key down. Now, if I leave it selected and hit Cmd-Shift-K again, I am back to: "This is a line of text in Word; it contains 13 words and 2 numerals." Now, if I type the same line of text, with the Caps Lock key down, I get: "THIS IS A LINE OF TEXT IN WORD; IT CONTAINS 13 WORDS AND 2 NUMERALS." According to Bill's post, selecting this line and hitting Cmd-Shift-K should give us: "This is a line of text in Word; it contains 13 words and 2 numerals." However, it in fact has no effect, since Word is applying the All Caps style to a line of text that is already in All Caps. It is not toggling the case. chaz -- Someone please release me from this trance. clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu AOL:Crowbone
robt@mummy.agsm.unsw.oz.au (Rob Trevor) (11/14/90)
In article <291dahla@yoda.byu.edu> dahla@yoda.byu.edu writes: > My wife has spent endless hours of dictation for her boss that wants all of the > text in lower case letters instead of having it all in UPPER CASE like he used > to want it. Is there any possiblity of changing all of the characters to lower > case? She can then go back and replace the first letter of each sentence with a > cap. > If other formatting is fairly simple, you could save as a text only file and use the facilities of McSink/Vantage DA's. (The first is shareware - in the SUMEX archives - the second is the commercial version - from Preferred Publishers. Either will do the case change AND capitalise sentences. I'd be lost without it.) Rob --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rob Trevor robt@mummy.agsm.unsw.oz.au Associate Professor robt@agsm.unsw.oz.au Australian Graduate School of Management University of New South Wales PO Box 1 VOICE: +61 (2) 662-0274 Kensington, NSW FAX: +61 (2) 662-2451 AUSTRALIA 2033 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D Danziger) (11/14/90)
In article <291dahla@yoda.byu.edu> dahla@yoda.byu.edu writes:
My wife has spent endless hours of dictation for her boss that wants all of the
text in lower case letters instead of having it all in UPPER CASE like he used
to want it. Is there any possiblity of changing all of the characters to lower
case? She can then go back and replace the first letter of each sentence with a
cap.
Well, there are two ways I've done this kind of thing. The first,
within MS Word, is to do a global substitution, replacing A with a, B
with b and so forth... This is how we USED to do it.
The better way is to use the Shareware DA, McSink. This has a 'All
Uppercase', All lowercase, Capitalize words (which only works if it
starts lowercase...), capitalize sentances, and change case... Sounds
perfect, doesn't it?
(Available from Sumex-aim.stanford.edu via Anonymous FTP, in the
info-mac/da directory:
-rw-r--r-- 1 macmod info-mac 61509 Mar 3 1990 mcsink-70-files.hqx
-rw-r--r-- 1 macmod info-mac 101705 Mar 3 1990 mcsink-70.hqx
)
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