Text string in title case?
Mike Wickham
mewickham at compuserve.com
Wed Feb 27 20:23:35 PST 2008
> Sorry... I wasn't clear. Search/replace won't work.
>
> It's lots and lots of different book titles, all throughout a 600 page
> manuscript. This is a legal textbook with loads of footnotes, which
> contain
> references to many other works. The previous author set all the book
> titles
> in all caps, now they need to be cap/lowercase (title case).
>
> So a search/replace doesn't work. I'm trying to avoid retyping all these
> titles. Seems like the best so far is to change the case to lower, and
> retype the initial caps where needed.
The only idea I can come up with is a wildcard search. In the Find/Change
dialogue check "Consider Case" and "Use Wildcards." Then search for
[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]. This will find all instances of three capital letters in a
row (and assumes no book titles have less than three capital letters). If
you know the shortest number of characters in a book title, you might add
more [A-Z] entries to eliminate finding ISBN and other acronyms. Anyway, the
wildcard search will find the book titles, but leave you stuck changing
their case manually. Maybe some of the better minds here will have an idea
how to do that.
See help for "Finding and changing " and "Searching for special characters
and nonprinting symbols" for more information.
Mike Wickham
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