PRACTICAL GUIDE

Change Capitalization Without Losing Meaning

Uppercase and lowercase are useful for a uniform list or heading.

Choose a mechanical operation

Uppercase and lowercase are useful for a uniform list or heading. Title and sentence case apply additional rules about where capitals begin. Choose the operation that matches the task before replacing the original text.

Protect names and abbreviations

Acronyms such as NASA and product names with internal capitals may be changed by a broad case operation. Keep a copy of the original and review those terms in the result rather than assuming a mechanical conversion understands them.

Check the target style

Different publishers capitalize headings differently. Simple title case can be a starting point, but it does not decide whether an article or short preposition should remain lowercase. Apply the actual house style afterward.

Review language-sensitive text

Case behaviour can depend on language and Unicode mappings, and some scripts do not use letter case. The tool changes strings in the browser; it is not a grammar checker, translator or proofreader.

Put it into practice