Create keyboard shortcuts to change case in Pages

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Create keyboard shortcuts to change case in Pages

After searching for a while, I finally figured out how to create Word "change case" keyboard shortcut equivalents for Pages using System Preferences, so I thought I would post this incase it helps anyone else.

1. Go to System Preferences --> Keyboard.

2. Go to shortcuts tab. Select "App Shortcuts" (left side).

3. Click the + sign and click on "All Applications" to get to the drop-down. Choose Pages as the application.

4. Under "Menu Title," type "Edit->Transformations->Make Lower Case" if you want the selected text to be lowercase. (Make sure you type the -> arrows). Assign akeyboard combination. I used ⌘1.

That's it. If you want the selected text to be ALL CAPS, the Menu Title is "Edit->Transformations->Make Upper Case". If You Want To Capitalize Each Word, the MenuTitle is Edit->Transformations->Capitalize.

MacBook Pro, macOS Sierra (10.12.6), 15-inch

Posted on Mar 1, 2018 3:00 PM

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Yellowbox

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Mar 3, 2018 7:25 AM in response to Adambr

Hi Adam,

Good catch! 🙂.

It also works under the Format menu. For example,

Format->Font->Capitalization->Small Caps

(or any other format under Capitalization)

Thanks for this tip. It will be useful to other users.

Regards,

Ian

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Adambr Author

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Mar 3, 2018 7:41 AM in response to Yellowbox

Thanks! That's good to know.

Although I had used the keyboard shortcuts function under System Preferences before, I didn't fully understand it, nor did I think to use it with Pages. Part of the problem for me, and maybe others, is that I am much more familiar with the terminology for Word rather than Pages. They are quite different (e.g., change case versus transformations), so solutions can be hard to find.

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Yellowbox

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Mar 3, 2018 8:03 AM in response to Adambr

Hi Adam,

Although I had used the keyboard shortcuts function under System Preferences before, I didn't fully understand it, nor did I think to use it with Pages.

To my knowledge (Text-Speak AFAIK) until Pages 6.3.1 under macOS Sierra we did not have the ability to add a keyboard short cut. All we could do was change an Apple-preset shortcut. Thank you for your detective work!

Keep posting in Apple Support Communities.

Regards,

Ian.

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