Text based find/change changing case of letters

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July 17, 2018
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Good morning. This has me baffled.

Using a text-based find/change, I am searching for the string "Jun." and replacing with the string "juin". When I complete the f/c, it has replaced with "Juin" instead. I have tried removing all paragraph styles and character styles to test this out, but it continues doing this even with no styles applied. Title case is not applied. Sentence case is not applied. Autocorrect spelling is not turned on. I have also tested with "Dec." to "déc." and it changed it to a capital D as well.

Why in the world is this changing the case of that letter on me?!?!

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Correct answer SJRiegel

Try choosing Case Sensitive in your Find/Change dialog.

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SJRiegelCorrect answer

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Try choosing Case Sensitive in your Find/Change dialog.

grudgemomAuthor

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Well now I feel like an idiot. Here I am working with multiple GREP f/c's and GREP doesn't have a case sensitive button.

Jongware

Community Expert

Only FYI:

The GREP dialog doesn't have a button because switching case sensitivity on and off is in fact a GREP command. By default, GREP is case sensitive but this: (?i) switches it off ("insensitive"), and this: (?-i) switches it on again.

Because it is a command, it may appear in the middle of a longer GREP string -- and you can even switch it on and off as much as you like

For example:

(?i:This) \u

will match "this House" and "This Government" but not "this example". The ever so slightly nonsensical

The (?i)\u(?-i)\u

will match "The" (case sensitive), then any single upper or lowercase letter, followed by an uppercase letter.

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