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InDesign applies 'title case' on its own

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December 11, 2016
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I am editing text in an existing document. As I continue typing, InDesign CC 2017 sometimes decides to change the letter of the earlier just-typed words to a capital. This doesn't always happen, but once it starts it continues until I move somewhere else in the document. (It may or may not happen in the new location as well.) Paragraph style is set to Normal case.

How can I stop this from happening?!

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Correct answer jane-e

Ok, I think you've approached this very systematically, eliminating the possible suspects.

The next step is to report it to Adobe:

Wishform - Adobe InDesign

Barbara is correct, as you know—I was out most of yesterday and did not get back to this. When I looked it up, I saw that I am (was) one of many who thought incorrectly that there was a character style for this.

More questions, though:

• Does it do this in all documents or just this document?

• Have you reset preferences?

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/setting-preferences.html

csavagevapld

Participant

I also have this issue on occasion. I am starting to wonder if it has to do with a file that is edited by multiple people -- some on Mac and some on PC? That is my best guess at this point. And no, I do not have a fix. It's driving me batty.

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Wildflower123

Participant

I was having the same issue and discovered that my F3 was inadvertently clicked ON. F3 capitalizes words. The problem was solved when I pushed F3 (duh!).

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Wildflower123

Participant

Oops! F3 was apparently not the problem. I copied the problem sentences and replaced the original sentences and now the problem seems to be solved. Hopefully. We'll see...

jane-e

Community Expert

Watch both your Paragraph and Character panels. If a Character style is applied manually, it will be highlighted. Notice that this panel says "None". But when a Character style is applied automatically (Drop Cap, GREP, Nested Styles), the Character Style will be at the bottom. That's where this panel says "Bold".

Does your Character panel say that a style is being applied?

It could be any of the above reasons, so tell us more, or post a screen shot.

Barb Binder

Community Expert

jane-e—I can'f figure out how title case can be assigned via a character style... what am I missing?

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Did you create this document yourself, or did someone else?

The two of you have covered all of the usual suspects, and while there is a default keyboard shortcut to assign title case, it's only to the selection, and doesn't stay on (as you stated). Could there be a GREP style on the paragraph?

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

winterm

Legend

Most likely, Autocorrect is ON. Check Preferences > Autocorrect > Autocorrect Capitalization Errors

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PeterKCAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks — sounds like a good work-around.

But autocorrect of capitalization errors is there because it can be useful — what's not useful is when InDesign suddenly, unpredictably decides that every word should be capitalized for no reason at all. Sounds like a bug needs attention.

winterm

Legend

I strongly doubt ID 'decides' itself to correct your writing. It must be active Autocorrect, or maybe you accidentally turn on Title Case (may it have some custom kb shortcut assigned? May it be Style settings?). It's hard to tell without seeing actual doc on actual machine.

Basically, I prefer text editors (like Word) for entering and spelling bigger amounts of text, and keep ID's Autocorrect OFF. InDesign is for design.

Edit: additionally, you can check Spelling tab in Preferences. Word capitalization is involved there, too...

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