Forum Discussion
Using Find / Replace to capitalize the first letter of each word.
I’ve tried a number of suggestions to replace the first letter of each word with a capitalized letter, unfortunately none have seemed to work.
I’ve tried:
In the “Find what” field, enter: (<[A-Za-z0-9]@>)
In the “Replace with” field, enter: \1
And
In the ‘Find what’ box, enter (<[A-Z]{1,}>)
Leave the ‘Replace with’ box empty.
As well as other variations (Use Wildcards is checked). Unfortunately, none of these work. I usually get this error “That replacement text contains a group number that's out of range.”
My document is a word followed by ^p. I want to preserve the CamelCasing so I can’t use “Capitilize Each Word” from the ribbon.
This is a typical example:
Graffiti
LensOnStreets
Mural
nycarchitecture
nycblogger
nycc
So in the above I would like the n in nyc to be capitalized.
Not sure what I’m doing wrong, and any suggestions would be greatly appreciated - CES
- Consider just selecting everything and using the case change menu on the Home Tab to give a cap at the beginning of each word.
Charles_Kenyon unfortunately, that doesn’t work because it changes the case for the rest of the word to lower case
Hi Chris,
I apologize for not reading to the end of your post.
My go-to resource on windcards:- Finding and replacing characters using wildcards
- Wildcard Cookbook for Microsoft Word: Jack Lyon: 9781434103987: Amazon.com: Books (I believe a version of this is available for free download at the Editorium. It is on their Freebies page.)
I am not proficient enough to be able to advise you, though. I expect someone else here will be able to.
