Auto casing for scriptwriting

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I’ve gotten hit with this a few times and it’s annoying every time. Occasionally, I’ll accidentally have the cursor on an action or dialog line when I change to character format and it automatically capitalizes every letter. However, when I change it back, it maintains the capitalization, so I end up having to retype it all.

It would be a wonderful update if it would change the casing back to first letter of a sentence to capital, but lower case everything else in addition to the margin change. Even if it can’t capitalize proper nouns, it would save a lot of re-typing.

Even better, if it could maintain a database of characters, places, etc, then it would have something to reference for proper nouns, so then it could maintain proper casing for names.J

Just an idea.

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Or even just put in a shortcut to allow us to change the case of a selection of text. Microsoft Word has Shift-F3, and it rotates a selection of text between all caps, all lowercase, and the first word capitalized.

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I get this problem too. The work-round - as long as you realise the mistake as soon as you make it - is to ctrl-z to undo your past actions (and then there is ctrl-y to redo if you go too far back).

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That should work. It wasn’t at the fore of my thinking when I ran into this, but that should be a quick fix. Still, I think I would love to see a character database of some sort.