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+<note tip>Visually scanning for ALL CAPITAL LETTERS can be time consuming and difficult. This tip will help you do it quickly.
+  * Open ''Advanced Find & Replace'' and turn on ''wild cards''.
+  * Close ''Advanced Find & Replace''
+  * Enter ''[A-Z]{2,}'' into the search bar and it will find all the all capital words.
+Note: This also finds acronyms and abbreviations, so you have to just scroll through all of the all cap instances and manually change any that are proper words and phrases into either Sentence case of Capitalize Each Word. You can also create a [[public:nnels:etext:keyboard-shortcuts|keyboard shortcut]] for change capitalization.
+Here is a quick [[https://somup.com/crl6bv0541|video demo of how to find All Capital Letters]]</note>
 ==== Q&A Archive ====
+Q: In the book the Haunting of Room 909, the author frequently capitalizes whole words in dialogue to indicate the speaker is yelling or emphasizing something. I understand that leaving the words capitalized will mean that one letter is read at a time. Should I just make these words lower-case, or use emphasis style, or is there another way I can make them stand out?
+A: Just remove the all-capital letters, we do not need to add anything to the text.
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 **Q: There is a name in my text that appears as follows: Richard III. Should I change it to Richard the 3rd?

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