MacMost Now 602: Text Transformations and Substitutions

You can perform a variety of text transformations and substitutions using standard menu commands. For instance, you can change all of the characters in a selection to upper or lower case. You can also change straight quotes to curly quotes, two dashes to long dashes, and have segments of text automatically change as you type.

Comments: 9 Responses to “MacMost Now 602: Text Transformations and Substitutions”

    brian
    13 years ago

    How do you get to Text Edit from Pages?

      13 years ago

      What do you mean?

        Suzanne
        13 years ago

        I think he means he'd like these options in Pages--and so would I. Can't find anything like this there, however. Am I missing something?

          13 years ago

          They aren't in Pages, you are right. But you can do most of them in other ways. So it depends on the specific function. Substitutions can be controlled in the System Preferences and used in Pages.

            Suzanne
            13 years ago

            Sounds like an upcoming MacMost video to me!

    Gary Stone
    13 years ago

    Gary,
    TextEdit is a powerful word processor. Thank you for the most helpful video.

    Alan Fries
    13 years ago

    Great video. Can you do all of this in Pages?

      13 years ago

      Some, in different ways. Which task in particular?

    Donna Brooks
    13 years ago

    Wow, very helpful! Why are there straight quotes in the first place? Why not just always use the curly quotes? It looks much better. Thanks, Gary!

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