Lobo wrote:
OpenOffice needs these case change options to be added: 1. Sentence Case (the first character of a section capitalized, all other characters lower case)
Tools -> AutoCorrect -> Options provides "Capitalize the first letter of every sentence." I realize this is not precisely what you are asking for here, since you use the word "section" rather than "sentence", (I presume meaning "selection"). Selecting Format -> Lowercase followed by Format -> Autoformat -> Apply may practically cover most cases. You could probably set up a macro to do this.
2. Title Case (the first letter of each word capitalized, all other characters lower case)
This is available as an effect through Format -> Character -> Font effects -> Effects. Because this is an effect, the actual data itself is not changed.
3. Toggle Case (individually invert case of each individual character in a selected section)
Not available. I can see this option being useful if you are typing with Caps Lock on without realizing it. Also, it is perhaps a little easier to uppercase or lowercase a section of text with one single menu item or command instead of using two separate commands.
See issues 1601 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1601 and 12454 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=12454 .
I've also noticed a strange capitalization behavior with Writer: Instead of actually capitalizing characters, it sometimes uses some kind of code that makes the characters display as capitals, but the actual characters remain lower case. This is most apparent when a completed file is saved as a text-only file, and certain words that appear to be all caps in Writer are either all lower case or random case in the text file.
MS Word has this difference also, depending on how you apply uppercasing and lowercasing. In OOo Writer, if you use Format -> Change Case, the data itself is changed. If you use Format -> Character... -> Font Effects -> Effects, then only the appearance is changed, not the underlying data. Whether casing effects should produce a casing change in the data itself when saving to text or HTML or any other format that does not support a casing effect is arguable. Personally, I think it should. See issue 27346 at http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=27346
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