Changing capitalization


    The Change Case command lets you change the case setting of selected characters. This command is different than All Caps formatting in that it actually changes the underlying characters instead of merely changing their appearance.

    Tip iconIf you're using an OpenType font, you may want to take advantage of All Caps formatting to create more elegant type. (See Applying all caps or small caps.)

To change the capitalization text:

  1. Select the characters you want to change. (See Selecting characters.)
  2. Choose one of the following in the Type > Change Case submenu:
    • To change all characters to uppercase, choose UPPERCASE.

    Note: The UPPERCASE command causes discretionary ligatures to revert to normal text. This also occurs with the Title Case and Sentence case commands when a discretionary ligature appears at the beginning of a word.

    • To change all characters to lowercase, choose lowercase.
    • To capitalize the first letter of each word, choose Title Case.
    • To capitalize the first letter of each sentence, choose Sentence case.

    Note: The Sentence Case command assumes that the period (.), exclamation point (!), and question mark (?) characters mark the ends of sentences. Applying Sentence Case may cause unexpected case changes when these characters are used in other ways, as in abbreviations, filenames, or Internet URLs. In addition, proper names may become lowercase when they should be uppercase.