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                    Change the case of type
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                <br clear="both" /><div id="minitoc"><div class="t"><div class="b"><div class="l"><div class="r"><div class="bl"><div class="br"><div class="tl"><div class="tr"><div><h3>Contents [<a href="#" onclick="return toggleMiniToc('minitoc-links', this);" class="hideLink">Hide</a>]</h3><ul id="minitoc-links"><li><p><a href="#WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6df1a"><h4 class="topictitle4">Change text to All Caps or Small Caps</h4>
</a></p></li><li><p><a href="#WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6df0a"><h4 class="topictitle4">Specify the size for small caps</h4>
</a></p></li><li><p><a href="#WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6defa"><h4 class="topictitle4">Change capitalization</h4>
</a></p></li></ul></div></div><br clear="both" /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br clear="both" /><div><div class="section"><p>The All Caps or Small Caps commands change
the appearance of text, but not the text itself. Conversely, the
Change Case command changes the case setting of selected text. This
distinction is important when searching or spell-checking text. For
example, suppose you type “spiders” in your document and apply All
Caps to the word. Using Find/Change (with Case Sensitive selected)
to search for “SPIDERS” will not find the instance of “spiders”
to which All Caps was applied. To improve search and spell-check
results, use the Change Case command rather than All Caps.</p>
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<div id="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6df1a" class="nochunk"><a name="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6df1a"></a><h3 class="topictitle3">Change text to All Caps or Small Caps</h3><div><div class="section"><p>InDesign
can automatically change the <dfn class="term">case</dfn> of selected text. When
you format text as small caps, InDesign automatically uses the small-cap characters
designed as part of the font, if available. Otherwise, InDesign <dfn class="term">synthesizes</dfn> the
small caps using scaled-down versions of the regular capital letters.
The size of synthesized small caps is set in the Type Preferences
dialog box.</p>
<div class="fignone"><img alt="" id="op_10" src="images/op_10.png" /><div class="figdesc">Before (top) and after (bottom) setting BC and AD in small
caps to complement old-style numerals and surrounding text</div><br /></div><p>If
you select All Caps or Small Caps in an OpenType font, InDesign
creates more elegant type. If you’re using an OpenType font, you
can also choose All Small Caps from the Character panel menu or
the Control panel. (See <a href="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6e1ea.html">Apply OpenType font attributes</a>.)</p>
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<ol><li><span>Select text.</span></li>
<li><span>Choose All Caps or Small Caps in the Character panel
menu or in the Control panel. If the text was originally typed in
all caps, selecting Small Caps will not change the text.</span></li>
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<div id="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6df0a" class="nochunk"><a name="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6df0a"></a><h3 class="topictitle3">Specify the size for small caps</h3><div><ol><li><span>Choose
Edit&#160;&gt; Preferences&#160;&gt; Advanced Type (Windows)
or InDesign&#160;&gt; Preferences&#160;&gt;
Advanced Type (Mac&#160;OS).</span></li>
<li><span>For Small Caps, type a percentage of the original font
size for text to be formatted as small caps. Then click&#160;OK.</span></li>
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<div id="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6defa" class="nochunk"><a name="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6defa"></a><h3 class="topictitle3">Change capitalization</h3><div><ol><li><span>Select text.</span></li>
<li><span>Choose one of the following in the Type&#160;&gt;
Change Case submenu:</span><ul><li><p>To change all characters to lowercase,
choose Lowercase.</p>
</li>
<li><p>To capitalize the first letter of each word, choose
Title Case.</p>
</li>
<li><p>To change all characters to uppercase, choose Uppercase.</p>
</li>
<li><p>To capitalize the first letter of each sentence,
choose Sentence Case.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<div class="section"><div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:  </span>The Sentence Case command assumes that the period&#160;(.),
exclamation point&#160;(!), and question mark&#160;(?) 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, file names, or Internet URLs. In addition, proper names
may become lowercase when they should be uppercase.</div>
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