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Hi,

Is it possible to either have Nisus autocorrect or have it run a search to replace capitalized words in the middle of sentences that aren't names, and have it capitalize words that are at the beginning of sentences?

I'm using Dragon Dictate (yup, I know, but I don't have a choice) and it messes up the capitalization quite a bit so that it will capitalize random words in the middle of a sentence but not capitalize words at the beginning of a sentence.

In Nisus preferences, I turned on the feature to capitalize words at the beginning of a sentence but it doesn't seem to be catching all of the first words, I think maybe because a lot of my sentences follow a previous sentence that ends in ".)". (Which is what I use for record citations.)

Thanks. Any advice much appreciated.
Janice

The short answer to your question is: 'No'.
The general problem is a linguistic one. As you say, you only want to un-capitalze words that "aren't names." How are we supposed to know that? What you can do is use the find dialog to make going through offending cases a little easier. This is however tricky business, so you'll have to experiment. I'm a big Find/Replace user, but I generally solve this particular problem by visual inspection

Ah, okay, I'll keep messing with it then, Philip, thanks.

Hello, Janice.

As for words that follow ".)", you can use this search/replace pattern:

Find what: (?<=\.\) ).
Replace with: \T{uppercase:\0}

Open Find and Replace and select PowerFind Pro from the Using drop-down. Please note that there’s a space between the two closing parens.
Also you can create a macro out of it. Click on the Gear menu and select Macroize…, then select Replace All and save.

Greetings, Henry.

Okay thanks, Henry, I'll try it and post back!