If the All Caps icon is highlighted, it’s formatted. You can always tell if text is formatted as uppercase (as opposed to being “really” uppercase) by selecting it and looking at the Control panel. It’s a formatting change, it doesn’t actually change the underlying case of the letters. The instance in the last line failed because I had made it uppercase by applying a Character Style that changed the case to All Caps:Įven though the label says “Case” in the Character Style Options dialog box, it is not the same as choosing Change Case from the Type menu. The first line failed because selecting text and clicking the All Caps button in the Control panel (or using the Command/Ctrl-Shift-K shortcut) is a formatting change, which InDesign ignores when running case sensitive Find/Changes. It’s “true” uppercase, internally and externally. Here’s the same sample with the methods I used spelled out:Īs you can see from the two successful Find/Changes, changing the case from the Type menu’s Change Case fly-out menu is equivalent to entering the text by hand with the Caps Lock key enabled. The methods that applied an uppercase formatting were not found.
Only the methods that actually changed the case of the characters were found and changed. It’s because I used a different method for each instance of my uppercase IN STOCK blurbs. What went wrong? Why didn’t it change all the instances of uppercase “IN STOCK”? I run the Find/Change on my sample text, clicking the Change All button, and here’s the result: The little “i” icon above the Change field indicates there’s a Change Formatting command active (my Character color = Red setting). That way InDesign will only find instances that match the case of what I entered, and so will only change the character color of “IN STOCK” when it’s in uppercase. I don’t want Find/Change to include any lowercase versions of the phrase (such as the instance in the “Most of our fruits” sentence), so I entered the text as all caps in the Find field and turned on the Case Sensitive button. I want to find every instance of the phrase “in stock” that’s in uppercase and change its color to Red. Let’s say you want to use Find/Change to locate uppercase text so you can do something with it, like apply a Character Style or some local formatting. The second is the All Caps button in the Control panel (or its equivalent keyboard shortcut, Command/Ctrl-Shift-K), here:Īpplying either command to a selection of text changes the lowercase letters to uppercase, and leaves existing uppercase text as is. The first one is in the Type menu: Type > Change Case > Uppercase. There are two different commands in InDesign that can turn lowercase text into UPPERCASE, but they have different end results that can confound the unwary designer.
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