[Steve]

The Format/Change Case/Title Case option in Word capitalizes the first letter
of EVERY word. This is not correct, it should not capitalize the first letter
of words like "the" etc.

From http://www.writers.com/tips_titles.html

"The U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual offers one easy style:
'Capitalize all words in titles of publications and documents, except a, an,
the, at, by, for, in, of, on, to, up, and, as, but, it, or, and nor.' "
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

That's one rule. Others don't capitalize words under a certain length. The
rule I was taught was never to capitalize prepositions or articles. This,
however, assumes that you know what a preposition or an article is. And many
people find it awkward to leave long prepositions such as "through"
uncapped.

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"Steve" wrote in message
...
The Format/Change Case/Title Case option in Word capitalizes the first
letter
of EVERY word. This is not correct, it should not capitalize the first
letter
of words like "the" etc.

From http://www.writers.com/tips_titles.html

"The U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual offers one easy style:
'Capitalize all words in titles of publications and documents, except a,
an,
the, at, by, for, in, of, on, to, up, and, as, but, it, or, and nor.' "
--
Steve

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suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.


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[Graham Mayor]

You can't please everybody all the time, but if this bothers you, the
following macro will change selected text to title case omitting the listed
words.

Sub TitleCaseWithExceptions()
Dim vFindText As Variant
Dim vReplText As Variant
Dim i As Long

vFindText = Array("A", "An", "The", "At", "By", "For", "In", "Of", "On",
"To", "Up", "And", "As", _
"But", "It", "Or", "Nor")
vReplText = Array("a", "an", "the", "at", "by", "for", "in", "of", "on",
"to", "up", "and", "as", _
"but", "it", "or", "nor")

Selection.Range.Case = wdTitleWord

With Selection.Find
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.Format = True
.MatchCase = True
For i = LBound(vFindText) To UBound(vFindText)
.Text = vFindText(i)
.Replacement.Text = vReplText(i)
.Execute replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next i
End With
End Sub

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm


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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Steve wrote:
The Format/Change Case/Title Case option in Word capitalizes the
first letter of EVERY word. This is not correct, it should not
capitalize the first letter of words like "the" etc.

From http://www.writers.com/tips_titles.html

"The U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual offers one easy
style: 'Capitalize all words in titles of publications and documents,
except a, an, the, at, by, for, in, of, on, to, up, and, as, but, it,
or, and nor.' "