Bug with change case

[scotty321]

Does anybody know how to report a bug to Microsoft, regarding Microsoft
Office 2004?

Here's the bug that is driving our clients batty, who use Microsoft
Word to handle their transcription business:

When you hit command-option-C to "change case", Microsoft Word toggles
through all the different cases -- EXCEPT IT SKIPS OVER sentence case
unless you have highlighted an ending punctuation mark. Many times,
there isn't an ending punctuation mark at all -- the sentence might
have a hyphen at the end of it, for example. But we still want
Microsoft Word to turn the highlighted words into "sentence case"
(where only the first word is capitalized). Microsoft Word shouldn't
be "guessing" whether a group of highlighted words is a sentence or
not, simply based on the final punctuation... comand-option-C should
just cycle through all the different case options available to us.

Can I report this anywhere?

Thanks,
Scott

 

[Rebecca Harriss [MSFT]]

Does anybody know how to report a bug to Microsoft, regarding Microsoft
Office 2004?

Here's the bug that is driving our clients batty, who use Microsoft
Word to handle their transcription business:

When you hit command-option-C to "change case", Microsoft Word toggles
through all the different cases -- EXCEPT IT SKIPS OVER sentence case
unless you have highlighted an ending punctuation mark. Many times,
there isn't an ending punctuation mark at all -- the sentence might
have a hyphen at the end of it, for example. But we still want
Microsoft Word to turn the highlighted words into "sentence case"
(where only the first word is capitalized). Microsoft Word shouldn't
be "guessing" whether a group of highlighted words is a sentence or
not, simply based on the final punctuation... comand-option-C should
just cycle through all the different case options available to us.

Can I report this anywhere?

Thanks,
Scott

Thanks for the report. I¹ll pass this along to the Word team.

Thanks,
Rebecca
Rebecca Harriss
Microsoft Corporation
Macintosh Business Unit, Entourage Test

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[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Scotty:

Two problems:

1) The following macro will produce Sentence Case. Install it in the
Normal template and assign it to Command + Option + C.

Sub SentCase()
'
' SentCase Macro
' Macro recorded 5 October 2005 by John McGhie
'
Selection.Range.Case = wdTitleSentence
End Sub

2) Sentence case is not available in Word if the selected text is not
recognised as a sentence by Word. That's the *real* problem: even if
sentence case were available, it would do nothing. Most users of Word would
prefer it that way

The following change to the macro will do what you want, but you need to
warn your users that they need to be accurate with their selection

Sub SentCase()
'
' SentCase Macro
' Macro recorded 5 October 2005 by John McGhie
'

Selection.Characters(1).Case = wdUpperCase

End Sub

Cheers

Does anybody know how to report a bug to Microsoft, regarding Microsoft
Office 2004?

Here's the bug that is driving our clients batty, who use Microsoft
Word to handle their transcription business:

When you hit command-option-C to "change case", Microsoft Word toggles
through all the different cases -- EXCEPT IT SKIPS OVER sentence case
unless you have highlighted an ending punctuation mark. Many times,
there isn't an ending punctuation mark at all -- the sentence might
have a hyphen at the end of it, for example. But we still want
Microsoft Word to turn the highlighted words into "sentence case"
(where only the first word is capitalized). Microsoft Word shouldn't
be "guessing" whether a group of highlighted words is a sentence or
not, simply based on the final punctuation... comand-option-C should
just cycle through all the different case options available to us.

Can I report this anywhere?

Thanks,
Scott

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John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410

 

[Alexander Ljubimov]

Does anybody know how to report a bug to Microsoft, regarding Microsoft
Office 2004?

Here's the bug that is driving our clients batty, who use Microsoft
Word to handle their transcription business:

When you hit command-option-C to "change case", Microsoft Word toggles
through all the different cases -- EXCEPT IT SKIPS OVER sentence case
unless you have highlighted an ending punctuation mark. Many times,
there isn't an ending punctuation mark at all -- the sentence might
have a hyphen at the end of it, for example. But we still want
Microsoft Word to turn the highlighted words into "sentence case"
(where only the first word is capitalized). Microsoft Word shouldn't
be "guessing" whether a group of highlighted words is a sentence or
not, simply based on the final punctuation... comand-option-C should
just cycle through all the different case options available to us.

Can I report this anywhere?

Thanks,
Scott

I have the same question about contacting MS Office team and a
workaround. Just customize your toolbar through Tools menu and add
"change case" to it. I then click on it after highlighting what I want
to change and get all possible options. Click again and it will be done.
Alex