How can I paste text in UPPERCASE ?

[John Smith]

Hi 

Has anyone found a way to paste text in capitalised form?  (Windows 7 & 8.1 MLO)

Background 

For many/most of my projects, but probably not all, I keep wanting to turn them into CAPITALS.

Fwiw, I use a freebie clipboard manager called Ditto that is brilliant in most ways - e.g. it allows almost unlimited paste buffer storage, can strip off HTML from text... There may even be a way of pasting in uppercase using is, but I can't work out how! The other problem is that Ditto is somewhat buggy.

J

[Andrei Bacean]

You may use an autohotkey script to change the text to Uppercase.
Here is a related thread:


http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/24431-convert-text-uppercase-lowercase-capitalized-or-inverted/page-2

[Richard C]

I use ClipCache which is very reliable and which has an option to convert to Uppercase.  I haven't used this particular option.   I dont think you can create a hot key to do the conversion automatically,  You have to open ClipCache,  navigate to the clip and and then select the conversion that you want to do (it has a whole range of different things that it can do and you can create a custom conversion from these).

HTH

Richard

[Steve Kunkel]

There's a cool little utility called Dolphin Text Editor Menu.  Free and seems to be bug/junk free.  I had in running in the background for a couple months...  Never had problems with it, but also never used it very often, so I stopped having it stay running in the background all the time.  Uses about 28 MB of RAM running in the background, so it's not too much of a resource hog.

Anyhow, I just tried it on a new MLO task, and it seems to work fine. (see image below).

[John Smith]

I rather like Ditto and am dragging my feet on leaving just in order to paste in uppercase!|

But I've had a thought - could I change to an upper-case-only font for my Project names?

Anyone tried that?

J

[Andrei Bacean]

Not sure if autoformat will help. Anyway, check it if you are in front of the pc.

Another way, create a view and filter tasks by project. Then one by one, change their string to uppercase.

[John Smith]

Yes changing font to an uppercase-only does work !
However it turns out to be too clunky in practice and I don't ALWAYS want to have upper case.  :(

> Another way, create a view and filter tasks by project. Then one by one, change their string to uppercase.

Do you mean type them all in again ? (Yikes - no thanks!)

J

[Andrei Bacean]

I am using an app which will turn to uppercase by pressing a hotkey,

So, to change the task text to uppercase, i enter to the edit mode (by pressing one time on the task), then hit ctrl+A to select the text, then i press a hotkey that will convert the lowercase to uppercase, then i hit enter, and go to the next task.
if the uppercase text is very important, then it's not a problem to do it manually :)

среда, 28 января 2015 г., 22:46:21 UTC+2 пользователь John Smith написал:

[Steve Kunkel]

On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 8:26:44 AM UTC-8, John Smith wrote:

I rather like Ditto and am dragging my feet on leaving just in order to paste in uppercase!|

 

Yea, don't replace Ditto with Dolphin Editor...  Dolphin is not a clipboard manager...  

I'm not a developer, but I'm guessing the MLO will detect any Windows font that you have installed.   So if you have an all-cap font, then maybe.   As you mentioned though, they are probably clunky-looking.  An all-cap font won't be crisp looking LIKE THIS TEXT HERE.

Which is "It will look like this." in Ballonist SF font.

Side note though:  If you're a clipboard manager user...   It's been a while since I used Ditto.  I'm pretty sure ArsClip will paste all caps.  For a long time I have been using Clipboard Help+Spell.  It has some nice customization formatting presets (that's part of the reason that I didn't need Dolphin installed).    See image:

CH+S is "donationware" so you'll get nagged to donate a couple times.  It's a decent app.  Worth a donation.  Or eventually, you CAN get it free.  

Similar to Dwight's warning in another thread though:  Don't burn all your time trying to find the perfect tool.. ;-)

[Steve Kunkel]

On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 12:53:52 PM UTC-8, Andrei Bacean wrote:

if the uppercase text is very important, then it's not a problem to do it manually :)

Good point!   :-)