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Word to capitalise letter after 3 dashes and 2 spaces
I am transcribing evidence in question and answer format €“ that is a question
followed by 2 spaces, 3 dashes and 2 spaces followed by the reply. Would it be possible for the first letter of the reply to be automatically capitalised? When I typed in WordPerfect I had created a macro that went through the document after I had typed it and converted the first letter of the first word of the reply to upper case, but I have not been successful when I tried to do that in Word. I would prefer if it did it automatically as I type. Is that a possibility? Help appreciated. |
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Hi Tipuana
Tipuana wrote: I am transcribing evidence in question and answer format €“ that is a question followed by 2 spaces, 3 dashes and 2 spaces followed by the reply. Looks rather oldish to my eyes (and I try never to use 2 consequtive spaces, anyway :-)). Would it be possible for the first letter of the reply to be automatically capitalised? You can do that with search/replace (Edit | Replace): You need to enable the 3rd option from the top in the window after hitting "more", and then: Search: --- (?) [That's 2 spaces followed by your 3 dashes and two more spaces, followed by a question mark in parathesis.] Replace: empty [Click into the replace area, but leave it empty and add a Formatting through Format | Font | Caps.] That will find all such occurences in your document and capitalize the first letter afterwards, with the usual caveats about search/replace and what it finds. Post back if you want to turn this into a macro. Greetings Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Thanks, Robert. Regarding "oldish". I am in South Africa and we are a bit
"oldish" here - only just graduated from WP5.1 for DOS. I am not responsible for the specifications of the layout - they also want 2 spaces after a full stop (which I must admit I am rather partial to.) "Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote: Hi Tipuana Tipuana wrote: I am transcribing evidence in question and answer format €“ that is a question followed by 2 spaces, 3 dashes and 2 spaces followed by the reply. Looks rather oldish to my eyes (and I try never to use 2 consequtive spaces, anyway :-)). Would it be possible for the first letter of the reply to be automatically capitalised? You can do that with search/replace (Edit | Replace): You need to enable the 3rd option from the top in the window after hitting "more", and then: Search: --- (?) [That's 2 spaces followed by your 3 dashes and two more spaces, followed by a question mark in parathesis.] Replace: empty [Click into the replace area, but leave it empty and add a Formatting through Format | Font | Caps.] That will find all such occurences in your document and capitalize the first letter afterwards, with the usual caveats about search/replace and what it finds. Post back if you want to turn this into a macro. Greetings Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Tipuana wrote:
Thanks, Robert. Regarding "oldish". I am in South Africa and we are a bit "oldish" here - only just graduated from WP5.1 for DOS. OK, I guess _that_ would qualify for outdated software nowadays! :-) I am not responsible for the specifications of the layout - Beleive me, I *do* know that feeling ... they also want 2 spaces after a full stop (which I must admit I am rather partial to.) Well, provided a text is formatted in a fixed-width font like Courier New, I can see a reason for it. With any other font, it's like trusting more in one's own typographical judgement than in the font designer's .... ;-) Glad it works for you, and greetinx from the same time zone (though a lot to the north) Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Robert M. Franz (RMF) wrote: Tipuana wrote: Thanks, Robert. Regarding "oldish". I am in South Africa and we are a bit "oldish" here - only just graduated from WP5.1 for DOS. OK, I guess _that_ would qualify for outdated software nowadays! :-) I am not responsible for the specifications of the layout - Beleive me, I *do* know that feeling ... they also want 2 spaces after a full stop (which I must admit I am rather partial to.) Well, provided a text is formatted in a fixed-width font like Courier New, I can see a reason for it. With any other font, it's like trusting more in one's own typographical judgement than in the font designer's ... ;-) Glad it works for you, and greetinx from the same time zone (though a lot to the north) Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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