Can't create Character Style that capitalizes words

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I’m trying to create a character style that will capitalize the first few words in a paragraph. Here’s what I’ve tried:

Highlight words and use TRANSFORMATIONS>MAKE UPPERCASE

Select FORMAT>MAKE STYLE FROM SELECTION

In style, I select SAVE CHARACTER ATTRIBUTES

OK

But the resulting style will not capitalize the words I select and apply the style to. What am I doing wrong? This seems like such a basic style to create and its frustrating me not to be able to create it…

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Right.
That’s not what a style actually stores for a parameter to my knowledge. I don’t think being capitalized is really a character attribute in itself. (Different Unicode altogether – same letter, yes, but no. … different glyph.)
[When you ask Scrivener to make a selection uppercase or lowercase, it actually translates and rewrites the said passage. It doesn’t apply anything to anything.]

This said, I don’t know why you want to do this, but if it is for the opening of your chapters, this function is already available at compile. You turn it on, tell the compile format this many first words to capitalize, and that’s it.

You could also use the shortcut to capitalize your selection (and make one if there isn’t one already set.) This wouldn’t be any more complicated than applying the style to your selection… (Plus : using a style for this would impeach some flexibility, later, at compile. Styles are to be used as little as possible. – In this case you’d potentially forfeit control over the font and font size.)

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Thanks very much for the speedy reply. Yes, this is for the opening of my chapters, but my problem is that the first line of each chapter is actually the name of a character and a time. I need to apply the capitalization to the SECOND line of each chapter. Hence my dilemma. I guess I’ll have to do it manually…

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Someone had the very same challenge a few months back.
I don’t recall how it ended, but searching the forum might be worth the try for you.

But it is easy to do. Forget the style, use the shortcut to Make Uppercase.
It’ll take you just a few minutes.

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Make those a chapter sub-heading instead. There are various ways to do that.

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