Using Find / Replace to capitalize the first letter of each word.

[Chris-NYC]

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

[#2]

Consider just selecting everything and using the case change menu on the Home Tab to give a cap at the beginning of each word.

[#3]

@Charles_Kenyon unfortunately, that doesn’t work because it changes the case for the rest of the word to lower case

[#4]

@Chris-NYC 

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.