Comments on: Initial caps in Open Office Writer

By: Naveen

Naveen — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 02:47:28 +0000

Thanks for the code.

By: Kent

Kent — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:31:43 +0000

I downloaded this macro and found only Title case worked. It did not toggle through lower and upper case. Also it only worked on one word not on a selection of words. Looking at the code it appeared that these features had been deliberately disabled.

I was able to change the code so that it worked. make the following changes to the code marked in bold:

ChgCase: ‘Check case of seln and alter accordingly
if seln=ucase(seln) then ‘seln is already UPPER – set to lower
dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, “.uno:ChangeCaseToLower”, “”, 0, Array())
goto FinishWord
endif
if seln=lcase(seln) then ‘seln is already lower – set to Title
goto SetToTitle
endif ‘seln is probably mixed case – set to UPPER
dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, “.uno:ChangeCaseToUpper“, “”, 0, Array())
goto FinishWord

and add the label

omega=vcursor.getEnd()
FinishWord:
ThisSeln=oText.createTextCursorByRange(alpha)

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:28:55 +0000

Java Runtime must be enabled to assign the keys.

See http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php?title=Enabling_Java_in_OpenOffice

By: Jaap

Jaap — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 08:53:33 +0000

thanks for capital macro, it works with me on alle words in a sentence, not only the first in the rule or sentence.

By: John

John — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:55:20 +0000

Tremendous! Thank you so much for that. That had been one of the few annoyances I’ve had with Open Office. And you made it very easy to create the macro. Kudos.

By: George

George — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:19:51 +0000

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