I'm using an old version of Shlomo Perets' extremely useful expanded toolbar and it has a button to change the selected string to sentence case. It says the keyboard shortcut is Alt+F2. That may be generic on all systems, even those without the toolbar. If so, you could use Mike's wildcard search to select each title and then Alt+F2 to change them. A lot quicker than retyping!
Cheers, Rebecca >>> "Mike Wickham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 28/02/08 17:23 >>> > 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 _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/rebecca.officer%40alliedtelesis.co.nz Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please notify Allied Telesis Labs Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender has the authority to issue and specifically states them to be the views of Allied Telesis Labs. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
