Finding capital letters in word

In this article, we want to introduce you 2 quick ways to find all words with initial or all letters capitalized in your Word document.

Capitalization is often seen in our documents. For example, some people prefer using capitalization to lay emphasis on important points. Besides, if you are looking through a government document, you will probably see many organization names in acronyms. The reasons to find words with initial or all letters capitalized are as follows:

1. You may need to change capitalized words to other cases, such as small caps.
2. Sometimes, there is no need to use capitalization all the time even as a way of emphasis.
3. In a government proposal, it’s of great importance to recheck the correct spell and explanation of acronyms which are in all caps most time.

Therefore, just pick up the methods we are going to show you to get the job done.

Method 1: Utilize “Advanced Find” Features

This time we use wildcards to help us find all words either with initial or all letters capitalized.

1. Firstly, click the arrow button next to “Find” command under “Home” tab.
2. Then click “Advanced Find” to open the “Find and Replace” box.
3. Next place cursor at the “Find what” text box. Enter “[A-Z]{2,}” to find all words with all letter capitalized. And enter “[A-Z]{1,}” to find all words with initial capitalized.
4. Click “More” to bring out more options.
5. Next check “Use wildcards” box.
6. Then click “Find In” button and choose “Main Document”. You shall see words in selection now.

Note:

As you may notice that when using “[A-Z]{1,}” to find all words with initial capitalized, only capitalized letters are in selection, such as bellow:

An alternative option is replacing the wildcards with “[A-Z][a-z]{1,}” to find all words with initial capitalized. But its setback is that it finds only words over than one letter. For instance, letter “A” will not be recognized.

Method 2: Run Word Macro

Apart from method 1, you can also run macro to highlight all target words as to examine the proper usage.

1. To start off, press “Ctrl+ Home” to go to the beginning of a document.
2. Then press “Alt+ F11” to trigger the VBA editor.
3. Next go to “Normal” project by clicking on it.
4. Click “Insert” tab and select “Module”.
5. Then double click the module to have the editing area on the right side available.
6. Now paste the following codes there:

Sub FindAndHighlightAllCaps()
  Dim objRange As Range
 
  With Selection
    .HomeKey Unit:=wdStory
 
    With Selection.Find
      .ClearFormatting
      .Text = "[A-Z]{2,}"
      .Replacement.Text = ""
      .Forward = True
      .Wrap = wdFindContinue
      .Format = False
      .MatchWildcards = True
      .Execute
    End With
    Do While .Find.Found
      Set objRange = Selection.Range
      objRange.HighlightColorIndex = wdPink
      .Collapse wdCollapseEnd
      .Find.Execute
    Loop
  End With
End Sub

1. Lastly, click “Run”.

This macro will highlight words with all letters capitalized in pink.

To highlight all words with initial capitalized, use this macro instead:

Sub FindandHighlightCapitalizedWords()
  Dim objRange As Range
 
  With Selection
    .HomeKey Unit:=wdStory
 
    With Selection.Find
      .ClearFormatting
      .Text = "[A-Z]{1,}"
      .Replacement.Text = ""
      .Forward = True
      .Wrap = wdFindContinue
      .Format = False
      .MatchWildcards = True
      .Execute
    End With
    Do While .Find.Found
      Set objRange = Selection.Range
      objRange.HighlightColorIndex = wdBrightGreen
      .Collapse wdCollapseEnd
      .Find.Execute
    Loop
  End With
End Sub

As to remove the highlight color, press “Ctrl+ A” to select the entire document. You can click “Home” tab first then click the “Text Highlight Color”. Next choose “No Color”.

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There is function to find capital letters in a word and and returns the index of that letter in the list.

def capslock(word):
    res = []
    for i,j in enumerate(word):
        if j.isupper():
            res.append(i)
    return  res
print(capslock("JDhfjkShh"))

[0,1,6]


I don’t understand why if you swap the loop variables in places (like that)

def capslock(word):
    res = []
    for j,i in enumerate(word):
        if j.isupper():
            res.append(i)
    return  res
print(capslock("JDhfjkShh"))

it gives me  AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'isupper'

I believe that the problem is that when the first variable is checked for the if condition in the loop and if the condition is met (the letter in the argument word is large), then the next variable remains empty and has nothing to return to result list . is my guess correct that first both variables should fall under the in enumerate function so that one variable checks the letter and the other puts it in the list — the result

I guess this is not a dumb question for a 6 day study.

updated:thanks for the feedback, you made it clear that this is still a stupid question, I will try not to distract you with this anymore

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This article will guide you to find and highlight the words with First Capital letters or highlight only capital letters in Microsoft word application.

Capitalization is regularly found in our records. For instance, certain individuals are inclined toward utilizing capitalization to lay accentuation on significant focuses.

In addition, assuming you are glancing through an administration report, you will likely see numerous association names in abbreviations. The motivations to observe words with introductory or all letters promoted are as per the following:

You might have to change uppercase words to different cases, like little covers. Now and then, there is no compelling reason to utilize capitalization all the time even as a method of accentuation.

In an administration proposition, it’s critical to reevaluate the right spell and clarification of abbreviations that are in all covers most time.

Consequently, simply get the strategies we will show you to take care of business.

This time we use wildcards to help us find all words either with initial or all letters capitalized.

1. Firstly, click the arrow button next to “Find” command under “Home” tab.
2. Then click “Advanced Find” to open the “Find and Replace” box.
3. Next place cursor at the “Find what” text box. Enter “[A-Z]{2,}” to find all words with all letter capitalized. And enter “[A-Z]{1,}” to find all words with initial capitalized.
4. Click “More” to bring out more options.
5. Next check “Use wildcards” box.
6. Then click “Find In” button and choose “Main Document”. You shall see words in selection now.

Trick 2: Run Word Macro

Apart from method 1, you can also run macro to highlight all target words as to examine the proper usage.

1. To start off, press “Ctrl+ Home” to go to the beginning of a document.
2. Then press “Alt+ F11” to trigger the VBA editor.
3. Next go to “Normal” project by clicking on it.
4. Click “Insert” tab and select “Module”.

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Detect correct capital letters in a word.

Please Note:
This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here: Using Find and Replace to Change Text Case.

David wanted to find words with an initial capital letter and change the initial capital letter to lowercase. Using wildcards, he wrote a Find string that correctly found capitalized words. However, David was unable to figure out how to change the initial capital to lowercase. He thought of using a Replace string, but didn’t know how to create one that would do that.

There is no way to do this in Word, at least not using Find and Replace by itself. The closest you can achieve is to create a macro that will use Find and Replace to step through all instances of your capitalized words and individually change the case of them.

You can, however, easily change the case of those letters by following these general steps:

1. Press Ctrl+F to display the Find tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.
2. Click the More button, if it is available. (See Figure 1.)



Figure 1. The Find tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.

3. Set up your wildcard search as you normally would to locate all the words that have the initial caps letter.
4. In the dialog box, make sure you select the Highlight All Items check box.
5. Use the drop-down list under the check box to select Main Document.
6. Click Find All. Word selects all the words that match the pattern you specified in step 2.
7. Press Esc to get rid of the Find and Replace dialog box. Your words should all still be selected.
8. Press Shift+F3 as many times as necessary to get the capitalization the way you want it for the selected words.

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Someone in one of my online editing groups wanted to find all the acronyms and initialisms in their document—any word comprising two or more capital (‘cap’) letters (e.g. AB, CDEF, GHIJK, etc.). They wanted a command that would find each one so they could check it (possibly against a glossary), then click Find Next to jump to the next one.

Wildcards to the rescue!

Here’s how:

1. Press Ctrl+H to open the Find and Replace window.
2. Click the Find tab (we only want to find these, not replace them with anything else).
3. Click More to show further options.
4. Select the Use wildcards checkbox.
5. In the Find what field, type: <[A-Z]{2,}>
6. Click Find next to find the first string of two or more caps.
7. Keep clicking Find next to jump to the next string of two or more caps.

How this works:

• The opening and closing arrow brackets (< and >) specify that you want a single whole word, not parts of a word. Without these, you would find each set of caps (e.g. in the string ABCDEF, you would find ABCDEF, then BCDEF, then CDEF, then DEF, then EF, before moving on to the next set of caps).
• [A-Z] specifies that you want a range (the [ ] part) of caps that fall somewhere in the alphabet (A-Z). If you only wanted capped words that started with, say, H through to M, then you’d change the range to [H-M] and all other capped words starting with other letters would be ignored.
• {2,} means you want to find capped words with at least two letters in the specified range (i.e. A-Z). If you only wanted to find two- and three-letter capped words, then you’d change this to {2,3}, and all capped word of four or more letters would be ignored. By not specifying a number after the comma, the ‘find’ will find capped words of any length containing at least two letters.