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Title Case Converter

Capitalize a title so every main word starts with a capital and short articles, conjunctions and prepositions stay lower case.

What this tool does

Capitalize a title so every main word starts with a capital and short articles, conjunctions and prepositions stay lower case. You fill in these fields: Text. It shows title case.

Inputs

  • Text: Longer text, up to 100000 characters.

How to use

  1. Type the text.
  2. Read the result: title case. It appears once every required field has a valid value.
  3. Use the copy button to copy the text.

Where this comes from

Change the case of text. The letters of the text are rewritten in the chosen case style. Eleven styles are defined, each by its own stated rule. Source: The case mappings of the Unicode Standard for single letters. The list of small words, the rule for the end of a sentence and the way words are split are this operation's own, stated in full in its text.

Limitations

  • Title Case uses one fixed list of small words. Longer prepositions such as over, from or with are capitalized, as some style guides require and others do not.
  • Title Case treats the whole field as one title. Line breaks do not restart the first-word or last-word rule, so a small word that starts a new line stays lower case unless it follows a colon or sentence end. Convert several titles one at a time.
  • In Title Case any word ending in a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark counts as the end of a sentence, so a small word that follows an abbreviation such as vs. gets a capital.
  • Title Case splits words at spaces and line breaks only. Each part of a hyphenated word gets a capital, including small words, so state-of-the-art becomes State-Of-The-Art.
  • Text longer than 100,000 characters is not accepted.

FAQs

Q: Which small words stay in lower case in Title Case?
A: These stay lower case unless they are the first word, the last word or come right after a colon or the end of a sentence: a, an, the, and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet, as, at, by, in, of, on, per, to, up, via and vs.
Q: What happens to words like iPhone or NASA in Title Case?
A: A word you typed with a capital letter anywhere in it is left exactly as typed, apart from the small words listed above, which are made lower case in the middle of a title. Text typed entirely in capitals is lower-cased first and then converted, so NASA becomes Nasa there.
Q: Is Title Case here the same as AP, Chicago or MLA style?
A: No. It follows the single set of rules described above, which agrees with the common styles for most titles but not for every case. Check your style guide for longer prepositions.
Q: How does Title Case handle hyphenated words?
A: Each part of a hyphenated word gets a capital, so end-to-end becomes End-To-End.

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