LO version 6.4.7.2 OS Linux Mint 20.3.
As the subject says. Sometimes I want to capitalise a word in the middle of a sentence that Writer does not recognise as a word that is normally capitalised. It’s tiresome to add the capital manually. A keyboard shortcut would make life a lot easier. It would also be useful to use the same shortcut to uncapitalise a word too, for those times when the cursor is on the wrong word… Or make it even smarter. If the word is all lower case, capitalise it. If it’s capitalised, make it all upper case. if it’s all upper case make it all lower case. I seem to recall M$ Word had this feature.
Thanks.
There is often just a small number of words that one needs to capitalise. For frequently used words consider if Autocorrect or AutoText would be a more useful method
Format>Text>… bottom items
There is no default keyboard shortcut for Captalise Every Word but you can attach one with Tools>Customize.
You can also repeatedly press Shift+F3 to cycle through the possibilities.
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@mogplus8, beware of some unwanted outcomes. Other words in the same sentence could lose its capitalization. See tdf#63259, tdf#144853.
Many thanks for all responses to my question, very much appreciated.
Shift F3 is what I was looking for. Now that I think about it I think that might even have been the same shortcut in Word, but it’s been a lot of years since I used Word…
Thanks for the feedback. It is always appreciated. But you gave it with an “answer” suggesting from the home page there are several possible ways, which is not the case. Please repost as comment.
Sorry but I’m not sure I understand your recommendation. I wanted to reply to all posters, not just one. It seems to me the only way to reply with a comment is to comment on one post. So which post should I have put my comment on?
The difficulty with people used to forums is to undersand the difference with a Question&Answers site. A poster asks a question as accurate as possible. If this is not the case, the question can be edited so that all elements are in a single location. Usually this is not possible in a forum.
Comments are used to clarify things or suggest leads when the context of the question is not clear enough to deserve an answer.
Answers provide solutions. As is frequently the case, there is no single universal unique way of fixing a problem, mainly due to the ignorance of asker’s skills in Writer. Inserting “false” answers may confuse new users looking for a solution to an equivalent problem.
When you want to address every contributor, the simplest method is to add a comment on the question itself.
@ajlittoz Thanks for the clarification.
So my general “thanks guys” should have been a comment on my original question. I’ll remember that next time.
