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DigitalChickster
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Nov 13, 2025 5:32 PM UTC
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How to find/replace text and have the new text be all lowercase letters

Hi all! I am working on a report for a magazine. And annoyingly, the name of the magazine is all lowercase, including the first letters of all the words in the name. I have text in tables. I'm trying to do a find/replace to make these letters all lowercase. And it works... except for the first letter (which is the first letter in each cell). I though GREP would take care of this, but it doesn't. I don't know why... maybe because it's in a table? Anyway, is there a way to force find/replace to make NOT capitalize the first letter? I would think it would just do what I typed, but no such luck. Interestingly, I am able to do this with no issues in Illustrator, although I'm not using tables in that file. 

Thanks. 

Dave Creamer of IDEAS
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Nov 13, 2025 5:55 PM UTC

Can you show your find/change settings? 

If using the Text search, do you have Match Case selected?

 

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)

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Dave Creamer of IDEAS
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Community Expert
Nov 13, 2025 5:55 PM UTC

Can you show your find/change settings? 

If using the Text search, do you have Match Case selected?

 

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DigitalChickster
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Nov 13, 2025 6:20 PM UTC

Oh! I didn't know about the "Match Case" option. Where do I find that? I don't see it in the find/replace palette... in the "Text" and the "GREP" tabs... 

I'm sure my search parameters are the default ones. 

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DigitalChickster
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Nov 13, 2025 6:22 PM UTC

Found it! And it worked! Thanks so much! 

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DigitalChickster
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Nov 13, 2025 5:38 PM UTC

Update: I tried to edit my question above, but was unable to do so. Not sure why. But... I've found this issue is also happening when it's not in a table. So ignore the whole part about the tables. They are irrelevant.. 

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