Pages Changing case? / keyboard shortcut?

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Download WordService from Devon Technologies, unzip (double-click) the file & then install it following the directions in the read me file. You will probably need to log out or restart your Mac for the services to be available. You will then have various options available under the Pages > Services menu. The various possibilities are dimmed in my screenshots because I have no text selected to apply the functions to.





For anyone using Snow Leopard, added services like WordService, will need to be "activated" in System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts.

You can also do it with System Preferences/Keyboard&Mouse/Keyboard Shortcuts. From there, without any additional software, you can add shortcuts for the menu items None, All Caps, Small Caps, and Title.

Go to System Preferences/Keyboard&Mouse/Keyboard Shortcuts
Click on the +
Select Pages as the application (you may have to choose other and locate it in the iWork folder)
Type in the menu item exactly as it appears in the menu, caps and spaces and all.
Select your key combination.
Click Add
Repeat for the other menu items.

I tried it for All Caps. I did not try the others but they should work too.

WordService will give you many more options (check Peggy's screen shot) and being free, there's no reason not to get it. And you can set the shortcuts the same way.

Walt

dubztar

There are several issues here.

1. Is to ensure that in plain text the text is capitalised correctly

eg This sample demonstrates acronyms (ABC) and Formal Names.

2. Word Services can convert type that has wrongly been typed with the CAPS LOCK DOWN to:

a. lower case

b. Initial caps of sentences, and

c. Initial Caps Of Words

3. Once you have established the correct appearance of the text in the normal case, then you can use in Pages:

+Menu > Format > Font > Capitalisation > None / All Caps / Small Caps / Title+

Using the Pages' method the font stays fully editable and can be switched freely between all 4 styles, with the switch happening with Apple's ATSUI technology and the unicode in the font.

Pages does not have keyboard shortcuts for the capitilisation styles but you can easily add them using:

+System Preferences > Hardware > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts+

Peter

Walt,

I see that there are many options in WordService. I have not used it and it was not apparent that the use of WordService would result in keyboard shortcuts, which was the original question. Does it also do keyboard shortcuts or is that still done in System Preferences?

Badunit

If WordService does not already have a keyboard shortcut for the item you can add one in +System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse+ as I showed above.

Peter

dubztar

If you are not familiar with Services in OSX, they live under the application menu including Finder so are effectively universal.

In Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6) they are better organised, appear when applicable and can be accessed via the contextual menu.

You install them into a special folder which is explained with the WordService documentation.

Other applications add services to the menu as well so that you can use them in conjunction with alternate applications.

Peter

First go to the menu you want to create a keyboard shortcut for and make sure it can be made visible in the background because you have to type the exact wording of the item on the menu including the Upper and lower case characters.

Go the the Keyboard shortcuts Preference click on the little plus in the bottom left corner of the window.

+Applications > Other (at bottom) > navigate to the iWork folder in the Applications folder > Pages or WordService.service (use the search field for this in the Open dialogue)+

Then type in the exact name of menu item and give it your shortcut.

Peter

Peter,
thank you for your helpful suggestions.
I have tried to add the capitalization keyboard shortcuts both to WordService and to Pages, without success. In both cases, I have proposed shift F3, the Word shortcut for changing capitalization. I have tried to match exactly the wording of the menu items, with spaces and capitalization. Do you have any suggestion for debugging, so that I can figure out what it is that I have done wrong? thank you very much.

Try adding command, option or control to the set.

You don't try and type the shortcut name.

You are just hitting the keys?

Peter