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Applying all caps or small caps
InDesign can automatically change the case of selected text. When you format text as
small caps, InDesign automatically uses the small-cap characters designed as part of
the font, if available. Otherwise, InDesign synthesizes the small caps using scaled-down
versions of the regular capital letters. The size of small caps is set in the Text Preferences
dialog box.
Before and after setting BC and AD in small caps to complement old-style numerals
and surrounding text
If you select All Caps or Small Caps in an OpenType font, InDesign creates more elegant
type. For example, when All Caps is selected, InDesign shifts certain punctuation marks
and makes other typographic improvements. In addition, you may want to apply the All
Small Caps attribute; see
To change the case of selected text:
Choose All Caps or Small Caps in the Character palette menu. If the text was originally
typed in all caps, selecting Small Caps will not change the text.
Note: Applying Small Caps or All Caps to text does not change the case, only the
appearance. For example, if you type "spiders" in your document and then apply All Caps,
using Find/Change (with Case Sensitive selected) to search for "SPIDERS" will not find the
instance of "spiders" to which All Caps was applied.
To specify the size for synthesized small caps:
1 Choose Edit > Preferences > Text (Windows and Mac OS 9), or InDesign > Preferences >
Text (Mac OS 10).
2 For Small Caps, type a percentage of the original font size for text to be formatted as
small caps. (The default value is 70%.) Then click OK.
Changing capitalization
The Change Case command lets you change the case setting of selected text. The Change
Case command is different than All Caps formatting in that it actually changes the under-
lying characters instead of merely changing the format appearance.
If you're using an OpenType font, you may want to take advantage of All Caps formatting
to create more elegant type; see
To change the capitalization of selected text:
Choose one of the following in the Type > Change Case submenu:
To change all characters to lowercase, choose Lowercase.
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