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There is a handy command in Text Edit (and in other software too, such as the Finder): if there is a word or phrase that needs to be capitalized, you can select it, right-click it, and choose Transformations>Make Upper Case, Make Lower Case, or Capitalize. This is a handy way of changing the case of several words at a time without having to retype them. Oddly, I don't see the Transform contextual menu in Pages. Is this hidden somewhere else in Pages?
Mac mini, macOS 10.15
You will find the functionality under the Format menu:
You will find the functionality under the Format menu:
It seems that the Transformations sub-menus are available when you select some text, otherwise they are grayed out:
I'm using macOS Monterey 12.0.1 with Pages 11.2. I tested the copy/paste after using the transformation and it pastes the text with the capitalization in TextEdit.
I just discovered a problem with this command: It seems to create a "fake" capitalization (kind of like, in some apps, when you apply "bold" or "italic" to text in a font that has no true bold or italic and then the styling is lost on export or when printing).
In Pages, when I use the above-mentioned command, it applies an effect that makes it look capitalized, but then when I copy the text out and paste it into my HTML editor or even TextEdit, the capitalization Is lost! This doesn't happen in apps like Safari that support the contextual-menu capitalization commands (I just tested it).
I had manually fixed the capitalization in a very long essay I wrote using the Format command in Pages, and then was dismayed when I discovered that all that work was lost when I tried to transfer the text to an HTML editor. I did find that exporting the text as PDF causes the capitalization to "lock in," but this may cause other problems. Is there a more elegant way to do this?
I'm still on Catalina with Pages version 11.1 (7031.0.102). I was also using the command in the Edit menu rather than the Font menu.
Capitalize a phrase
