HELP!!!!

I have a 40 page .doc story document that is all caps. I wish to
change it into regular type print, small letters.

However, it's easy to use the format change in Word, but how do I
change all the letters that should be capitalized back into caps?
Letters like I, or proper nouns, or even the first word of every
sentence.

Don't tell me to manually change everyone. There must be some easy
way to go back and forth between all caps and regular print.

What is it?

Robert

Re: Changing small letters back to proper Capital letters in .doc by thanatoid

thanatoid
Sat Mar 01 20:18:15 PST 2008

"Robert A. Macy" <macy@california.com> wrote in
news:613018b5-03a6-4687-be53-56c1adab16df@e10g2000prf.googlegr
oups.com:

> HELP!!!!
>
> I have a 40 page .doc story document that is all caps. I
> wish to change it into regular type print, small letters.
>
> However, it's easy to use the format change in Word, but
> how do I change all the letters that should be capitalized
> back into caps? Letters like I, or proper nouns, or even
> the first word of every sentence.
>
> Don't tell me to manually change everyone. There must be
> some easy way to go back and forth between all caps and
> regular print.
>
> What is it?

Not using Word, for a start.

Since I don't, I can't tell you, but if you save your
masterpiece as .txt then you can put it in Metapad or another
real text editor with that function and convert everything to
"sentence case". You can do the "I"'s just by a change of all
"spaceIspace" (space stands for " "). There is no getting around
having to re-read and catch SOME capitalizations manually,
though.

Still, annoying as Word is, I actually would be surprised if it
didn't have that same function. But you either have to look at
the menus or read the help file to find it. Life is just hell,
ain't it?


--
Savagery of the relationships between people. Here, everyone is
on the make, all of them doing their damndest to take someone
else by surprise, to relieve this man of his property, to enjoy
that girl's flesh. There is no gentleness, there are only
pleasures. Eyes which already devour the easy prey offered them,
eyes which seek out the chink in the armour, the weak point, the
little patch of pale skin into which the nails can sink and
bring blood spurting out. Spying eyes, fierce eyes, sharp eyes
which loathe and wound. A look which passes summary judgment, a
knowing look, one which wants, not to understand, but to keep at
a distance, to consume at a distance. A kind of tentacle, eye-
sucker clamped to the intellect's stomach. The world is not
pure. The world is free, roamed by wild animals, inhabited by
greedy, hate-filled monsters. Loneliness, indifference: hatred.

J.M.G. LeClézio

Re: Changing small letters back to proper Capital letters in .doc by Jeff

Jeff
Sat Mar 01 23:25:12 PST 2008

Choose Format / Change case / Sentence case. Fix the rest manually by
selecting one proper name and changing it to title case, then select each
other proper name in turn and use Ctrl+Y. If the same names appear
repeatedly, use Edit / Replace with the Match Case option ticked.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Robert A. Macy" <macy@california.com> wrote in message
news:613018b5-03a6-4687-be53-56c1adab16df@e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> HELP!!!!
>
> I have a 40 page .doc story document that is all caps. I wish to
> change it into regular type print, small letters.
>
> However, it's easy to use the format change in Word, but how do I
> change all the letters that should be capitalized back into caps?
> Letters like I, or proper nouns, or even the first word of every
> sentence.
>
> Don't tell me to manually change everyone. There must be some easy
> way to go back and forth between all caps and regular print.
>
> What is it?
>
> Robert



Re: Changing small letters back to proper Capital letters in .doc by Robert

Robert
Tue Mar 04 08:20:20 PST 2008

On Mar 1, 11:25=A0pm, "Jeff Richards" <JRicha...@msn.com.au> wrote:
> Choose Format / Change case / Sentence case. Fix the rest manually by
> selecting one proper name and changing it to title case, then select each
> other proper name in turn and use Ctrl+Y. =A0If the same names appear
> repeatedly, use Edit / Replace with the Match Case option ticked.
> --
> Jeff Richards
> MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
> "Robert A. Macy" <m...@california.com> wrote in messagenews:613018b5-03a6-=
4687-be53-56c1adab16df@e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>
>
>
> > HELP!!!!
>
> > I have a 40 page .doc story document that is all caps. =A0I wish to
> > change it into regular type print, small letters.
>
> > However, it's easy to use the format change in Word, but how do I
> > change all the letters that should be capitalized back into caps?
> > Letters like I, or proper nouns, or even the first word of every
> > sentence.
>
> > Don't tell me to manually change everyone. =A0There must be some easy
> > way to go back and forth between all caps and regular print.
>
> > What is it?
>
> > Robert- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Thank you all for the help.

Will try this and let people know.

Robert