Comments on: Convert Upper Case to Lower Case Text (and Vice Versa)

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 03:55:42 +0000

I appreciate this, but is there anyway to do it in pages? If not I’ll just copy and paste it into textedit any time I need to use the feature.

By: Nicolai

Nicolai — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:43:00 +0000

What is the name of the text application you are using?

By: Martin Cohen

Martin Cohen — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:50:34 +0000

For those of you using Microsoft Word (and PowerPoint), shift-F3 cycles through all caps, capitalize words, and all lower case. If you position the cursor at the start of a word, this is done on that word; if a region is selected, this is done on the whole region.

By: chiggsy

chiggsy — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:31:15 +0000

Roman text was in all caps as well. During the time of Charlemagne, a new script, called Carolingian Minuscule was created to aid in readability, which is what we still use today in latinate alphabets. It actually is easier to read apparently, google “Carolingian Minuscule”

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:30:24 +0000

Works for me, upgrade Pages!

By: Dick Cournoyer

Dick Cournoyer — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:35:01 +0000

This doesn’t seem to work with Pages,

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:33:15 +0000

Finally, Finally, Finally!!! I have to handle a lot of copy at my job, and would have to place it into Adobe InDesign when I came across ALL CAPS to format it easier. But now I can use Text Edit with essentially this same feature!!!

By: Mario

Mario — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:29:17 +0000

For VIM users, ggguG will put all text in lower case, and gggUG will put it to upper case .

For non VIM users, gg takes you to the beginning of the document. gu converts text to lower case. But which text? The text the next motion command moves over. Next command is G which takes you to the bottom of the document. So effective, this is read as go to the beginning of the document. Convert to lower case to the bottom of the document.

Similarly, the other case but this time gU converts to upper case.

By: Squanto

Squanto — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:52:45 +0000

I guess I missed something about your tip.

Why do you think it is easier to read a document written all in lower case letters (without appropriate capitalization) rather than reading text written all in upper case?

E-mail etiquette has established that typing text all in upper case is equivalent of shouting and therefore rude. But there are other “cultures” out there where writing in all upper case is the norm and not considered rude.

Personally, I find it easier to read a document written in all upper case. Whenever I’m reading a document written in an all lower case. In the back of my mind I’m thinking, “This idiot is too lazy to use his caps key. Discount what he has to say.”

By: chiggsy

chiggsy — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 06:20:15 +0000

When I tried this, only the first word got changed. I shrieked like any other Lion user would by this point, you know, like a damned soul, because maintaining hope that the little things, once a hallmark of Apple operating systems would work properly has been an utterly soul blasting experience, and copied the text to vim, where it was formatted properly, pasted it back into the document, and leaned over and cried because I broke my Snow Leopard CD last week. If this is the man’s legacy, better to live the life of a divorcee in Topeka.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 03:00:25 +0000

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By: DrJ0nes

DrJ0nes — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 02:42:47 +0000

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