Do you use Alt A????

[Janiece Young]

 

Do you use Alt A when Replacing, J defining, E defining or D defining?

This is for when you are editing.

You highlight your text. Say, for instance, you have "green light company" come up in your text and it's lower case. You want it to be capped. You don't want to type it again.

You highlight/mark "green light company" and then you hit control J to job define. The next step is you hit Alt A. That brings the text "green light company" into the Job define box. Then to get each letter capped you simply hit Alt A. If you would want all the letters capped, GREEN LIGHT COMPANY, you would hit Alt A again. If you decide you want them lower case, hit Alt A again. This saves a lot of typing.

This can be done when Replacing, J defining, E defining or D defining.

[Ashley]

F6 brings it into the box as well.  I don't know about for capping though. F5 does the capping

[Karen Mc]

All you have to do is hit the cap button and it brings the text in and caps it.  If you want all caps, you hit the caps button again.  To me it is easier.

[Rhoda Collins]

f6 does that also.  :)  Then, the Alt-A caps it.  I need to test that cap button tho, as that sounds easier!  ***Edited***Tested that using f5 (thinking that's what is meant by cap button?) and it didn't bring in the text...

[Donna]

Ctrl+F5 OR Alt+a both do the same thing: bring the old text into the new text box initial capped.

Another option is to use the Exceptional Extras Edit macro "Initial Cap and J-define Marked Text" - you mark the text, then press Ctrl+Shift+J (if you use the Extras Default Keyboard map, or you can assign that key combo or one of your choosing in your Keyboard Map), and it J-defines the marked words as initial capped with one keystroke.

[Debra Flamer]

Oh, this is good stuff. I've been out of the loop. Keep it coming!

[Donna]

Great macro! Love the E-define; takes care of every instance if you've written the words differently. I'm always amazed when reporters tell me they've never used E-defines.

[Rhoda Collins]

I like this, Christi!

[Rhoda Collins]

I tried 'just' the f5, not with the Ctrl.  I'll check out the Extras tho also!

[Debra Flamer]

This is sooo good. Thanks, Janiece. Haven't been on CSR in a long while so I'm just catching up on these gems!

[Janiece Young]

You're welcome, Debra.  I'm glad it's helping you.  This is one of my favorites.  I use it all the time.

[Christina Smith]

My other favorite trick that is similar to the Alt+A command is:

 

Alt+C:  This command works to pull words or letters together, removing the spaces between. For example, if you have the initials "C N A" repeated in a job, opening the J-define window and typing Alt+C will bring up "C<sticky space>N<sticky space>A<sticky space>." By typing Alt+C again, it will "glue" the letters together, "CNA." Then you can chose the "entire file" option in the Define window and it will change them all.

 

 

 

 

[Janiece Young]

Thanks, Christina,

I didn't know about Alt C.