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Working with Plug-Ins – Changing Case of Text

Changing Case of Text

PageMaker provides three type-case attributes: Normal leaves uppercase and lowercase letters as typed; All Caps displays letters as full-sized capitals; and Small Caps displays lowercase letters as small capitals, based on the size specified.

return to topTerminology

Lower Case
All the letters are not capitalized
Example: this selection is lower case

Upper Case All the letters are capitalized
Example: THIS SELECTION IS UPPER CASE

Title Case The first letter of each word will be capitalized; the rest of the letters are not capitalized
Example: This Selection Is Title Case

Sentence Case The first letter of a word beginning a sentence will be capitalized; the rest of the letters are not capitalized
Example: This selection is sentence case. The capital letter comes after an end punctuation mark.

Toggle Case The letters that are currently not capitalized will be changed to upper case; the letters that are currently capitalized will be changed to lower case
Example: tHIS sELECTION iS tHE tOGGLE cASE vERSION oF a tITLE cASE sAMPLE

return to topChanging the Text Case

To quickly change capitalization of a selected range of text, use the following instructions:

  1. With the Text tool, select the text you wish to change capitalization of
    NOTE: Make sure the [Caps Lock] key is not on. You cannot change case through any method while the [Caps Lock] key is on.

  2. From the Utilities menu, select Plug-ins ยป Change Case…
    The Change Case dialog box appears.
    Change Case dialog box

  3. Select the desired option

  4. OPTIONAL: To see the selected case applied to the text without closing the dialog box, click APPLY  
    NOTE: To change the case of the text selection back to the previous case, click RESTORE 

  5. Click OK

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