Why could not the effect you describe be equally achievable by changing
the characters? In your example you would initially change the Heading
1 style to be all upper case. Then, when you change your mind, you
change it back to title case
No, it's not possible. Format / Change Case has nothing to do with styles.
That means to change all the heading in the document by that method, you
would have to find them one by one, and individually highlight them, then
select Format / Change Case . . .
I agree that "small caps" is different (see below for my reason), but
the others: all upper case, all lower case, sentence case and title case
are all switchable by changing characters. It seems very odd to me that
all upper and all lower are in one sub-menu while title case is in
another and sentence case doesn't exist (except via auto-correct).
The reason they are on separate menus isn't because they are upper case,
lower case and title case. They are on separate menus because the do
totally different things.
Format / Change Case modifies the characters that are highlighted. In
other words, if I accidentally leave my caps lock on, and type a whole
paragraph in capital letters, I have made an error that needs to be
corrected. I want to change the actual characters to be lower case. So I
would use Format / Change Case / Lower Case. The actual characters have
now been changed to lowercase. Perhaps the problem is that it is on the
Format menu when perhaps the Edit menu is more appropriate.
Format / Character / Font Effects is to help display the text (and
especially headings) as capitals. It doesn't actually change the
characters from lower case to upper case (or vice versa). It changes the
way they appear. This is handy if you want to experiment with making
headings caps, lower case, title case or small caps. It is also handy that
you can set the Font Effects through styles, so that you can consistently
make sure headings are typed in caps or title case whether they were typed
that way or not.
So the reason they are on different menus is because they are doing
different things, not because they are grouped by (upper, lower) and
(capitals, lower case, title, small caps).
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I can see a technical distinction between changing the character and
changing the way it is displayed. This is clearly how fonts work. An A
is an A regardless of the font. But I'm not convinced by your example
that there is a logical reason for having two different sub-menus and I
can see a perfectly logical reason - usability - for having only one. I
am also not convinced by your example of the need for using two
different techniques, other than for small caps.
Although both features have to do with case, for me, there are two reasons
to keep them separate:
1. Function - the reasons you would use these features are quite different
2. They are actually doing two very different things (that admittedly look
the same to begin with)
I can't imagine combining them both on one menu. I think you would just
leave one of the features out.
Sorry if this is still unclear. Please let me know if it needs further
clarification.
Adrian
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