Utility: Convert Title to Proper Title Case, Etc.

1. Click Sample titles and then Title Case above to see an example of how two improperly capitalized titles are converted to proper title case.

2. After clicking Clear, “Copy/Paste” a title from your text editor, word processor, or email message into the above text box.

3. Clicking Title Case will cause your title to be capitalized correctly.

4. Then “Copy/Paste” the corrected title back from whence it came.

Another example:

1. Click Sample letters.

2. Click rEVERSE CASE.

3. Click rEVERSE CASE again.

This Web Page’s Rules of Title Capitalization

1. Except for the exceptions listed in #2, #3 and #4 below, periods (.) and underline characters (_) are treated exactly the same as spaces. The main reason for this is so that titles within uploaded MP3/video files do not produce long, complicated URLs because they contain spaces.

2. 1st exception to rule #1 above: A. preceded by a space, period, or underline character is assumed to be an abbreviation, and is therefore not converted to lower case.

3. 2nd exception to rule #1 above: a. preceded by a space, period, or underline character is assumed to be an abbreviation, and is therefore converted to upper case.

4. 3rd exception to rule #1: Except for the exception listed below in #5, a period followed by a space is assumed to divide the title into two separate titles.

5. Exception to rule #4 above: If the period followed by a space in preceeded by a letter which is preceded by another period, then both periods are assumed to designate abbreviations.

6. The first and last words of a title are always capitalized.

7. Any number of consecutive line feeds and/or carriage returns are assumed to divide the title into two separate titles.

8. (, [, and { with a space before, but no space after, are assumed to divide the title into two separate titles.

9. With the exception of rule #5 above, ., ?, !, ;, :, ), ], and } with no space before, but with a space after, are assumed to divide the title into two separate titles.

10. - (dash) with a space before and after, is assumed to divide the title into two separate titles.

11. In addition to letters and numbers, words may contain special characters such as apostrophes (' and ’) and dashes (-), but may not contain periods (.) or underline characters (_).

12. Words may also contain accented letters, such as ý, æ, õ, û, etc.

13. Words may be separated using any combination of spaces, tabs, periods, and/or underlines.

14. Unless they are the first or last words of the title, 137 special words/phrases, such as the, a, by means of, etc., are not capitalized.

15. Except for the 137 special words/phrases, words which begin with an apostrophe (' or ’) are always capitolized.

16. Except for the 137 special words/phrases, upper case characters are left unchanged. This is so that “BB King,” for example, is not incorrectly converted to “Bb King,” and so that “Part III” is not incorrectly converted to “Part Iii,” etc. If this is not appropriate for your particular title, try clicking lower case before clicking Title Case.

Note: The purpose of the Reset button is to reset the function selector back to its default selection.

Questions, comments and suggestions are welcome.
Howard Charles Best ()