Corel DESIGNER Help | Change text case and capitalization

Change text case and capitalization

To change the capitalization of characters

You can control the case of words, sentences, or paragraphs of selected text. For example, you can apply title case to selected text to capitalize the initial letter of every word. This is a useful formatting technique for headings, such as book or chapter titles.

You can automatically convert text to lowercase or uppercase without deleting or retyping letters. For example, you can quickly make a label or header in your document stand out by converting it to all caps (uppercase).

(From top to bottom) The following text case options are applied to an artistic text object: Sentence case, lowercase, UPPERCASE, Title case, and tOGGLE case.

Corel DESIGNER lets you change the capitalization of artistic and paragraph text. For example, you can apply small caps to acronyms so they visually blend with the text. If you apply default capitalization, the text stands out too much and impacts the readability. In the following example, the acronym "A.M." is shown with both the default uppercase and small caps applied.

Default uppercase	Small caps
The class begins at 9:00 A.M. in room 132.	The class begins at 9:00 a.m. in room 132.

With uppercase text, you can adjust the spacing between capital characters to improve readability provided the font supports capital spacing.

To change the text case

1 Using the Pick tool

, click a text object to select it.

2 Click Text

Change Case.

3 In the Change Case dialog box, enable one of the following options:

• Sentence case — capitalizes the first letter in the first word in artistic text or the first letter in the first word in each sentence in paragraph text

• lowercase — substitutes uppercase characters with lowercase equivalents

• UPPERCASE — substitutes lowercase characters with uppercase equivalents

• Title case — capitalizes the first letter in each word

• tOGGLE case — reverses the case of all characters, making lowercase characters uppercase and uppercase characters lowercase

To change the capitalization of characters

1 Using the Text tool

, select a character or a block of text.

If the Properties docker is not open, click Window

Properties.

2 In the Properties docker, click the Character button

to display the character-related options.

3 In the Character area of the Properties docker, click the Caps button, and click one of the following options:

• None — turns off all of the features in the list

• All Caps — substitutes lowercase characters with upper case equivalents

• Titling Caps — applies the OpenType version of the feature if the font supports it

• Small Caps (auto) — applies the OpenType version of the feature if the font supports it

• All Small Caps — substitutes characters with a scaled-down version of the upper case characters

• Small Caps from Caps — applies the OpenType version of the feature if the font supports it

• Small Caps (synthesized) — applies a synthesized version of Small caps, which appears the same as in previous versions of Corel DESIGNER

If the font supports capital spacing, you can click the Capital spacing button

to increase the spacing between capital characters and improve readability.

If you choose a non-OpenType font that supports Caps styles, Corel DESIGNER provides a synthesized version of the Small caps and All small caps styles.

Some OpenType fonts may appear to support features that are unsupported.