Hello,



I've scoured the Internet trying to find out if this is even possible, but I haven't found my answer. I write TV show dialogue in all caps, but every now and then I have to include certain text (like descriptions of sound) in lowercase. These descriptions are saved as hotkeys so that I don't have to write them out every time. The upper and lower case worked just fine until I started using dictation software.

The dictation software doesn't respect the Caps Lock button. I have to go into Word tool options and click ALL CAPS ON, which is fine for the dialogue, but when I hit a hotkey for a phrase that should be in lowercase, it also comes out in uppercase, which is not what I want. I think there are two possible solutions:

1. Find a way to set the hotkey commands so that they appear the way they are saved, regardless of the ALL CAPS ON feature
2. Find a way to make the formatting of the hotkeys different from the formatting of the document. This way I could highlight all hotkeys (there's a way to highlight something in a Word document based on the kind of formatting) and just "Change Case", setting those phrases to lowercase in one move.

In either case, I notice that as you are writing text, it always takes on the formatting of what you just previously wrote, so if there's no way to turn that off, then I think no solution will work. The text font and formatting will always match the previous text. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thank you!

Try using different styles for your dialog and notes. (You should be doing this anyway.) If you are using Dragon Naturally Speaking, you should be able to tell it to change styles.

One style can be all caps, the other mixed, as a part of the formatting.
I expect these would be paragraph styles.

Understanding Styles in Microsoft Word
If you are doing writing for a living using Word, you owe it to yourself to learn to use Styles.

Thanks, Charles! I will start to educate myself on styles. Thanks for the link.