Text Case – Automating All Your Text Conversion & Transformation Needs

Text Case – Automating All Your Text Conversion & Transformation Needs

Brett Burney 
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While we use the iPhone and iPad to compose short emails, and reply to text messages, we’re doing more and more “real work” on these slates of glass – extensive note-taking and composing documents.

That’s why it’s helpful to have some utilities to streamline our work and automate tedious tasks. For example, a clipboard manager like Paste and a text expansion service like TextExpander … and a text conversion tool like today’s app called Text Case.

Text Case is a simple utility that allows you to convert any text into various different formats.

Here’s how it works…

Basic Text Conversion (Microsoft Word)

Let’s say you’re working in Microsoft Word and you come across some text that you need to be in all UPPERCASE … how do you convert it? Do you manually backspace and delete everything, and then RE-type it all?

That is a waste of time, and something that Text Case can do automatically for you.

First, select and copy that text that needs to be converted. Then switch over to the Text Case app (which you can see I’m doing using a keyboard and the Command + Tab shortcut on my iPad) … then tap “Use Copied Text.” After a second or two, you can scroll down and see all the text conversion options.

To USE one of those text conversions, simply tap the colored bar at the top of the conversion you want, and then THAT text conversion gets copied onto the iPad’s clipboard (notice the confirmation message at the bottom).

Now go back to Word and paste in that converted text in all its UPPERCASE glory!

Use Text Case from Edit Menu (Notes)

Let’s do that again, this time from the Notes app using the iOS Edit Menu.

Highlight some text, and this time you can tap the “Share” option in the Edit Menu.

Then scroll down to the Text Case Action Extension. This brings up the Text Case interface right here with your highlighted text, and you can scroll and select the text conversion option that you want.

You have to tap the Paste command again, but at least you don’t have to leave the Notes app, and switch over to the Text Case app.

Unfortunately, the Edit Menu is NOT the same in Microsoft Word, so you’ll have to resort to the copy & paste option and switch back and forth between apps.

Text Conversions in Text Case

Let’s visit the Text Case app and walk through the different Text Conversion options.

First you have some basic / common text transformations such as

  • Title case
  • Uppercase
  • And Lowercase

The “Uppercase” option here is absolutely perfect for when you forget to engage “Caps Lock” before you start typing … don’t go back and RE-type everything, just use the Text Case app to quickly convert it for you!

Then you have “Capitalize Words” and “Sentence Case” along with the “Reversed” text …

You can also quickly toggle between “Smart Quotes” and “Straight Quotes”

Next the “Text Cleansing” options are great for stripping out any formatting that comes with your copied text.

The next section called “Programming” is useful for the computer programmers out there.

And then the fun and miscellaneous “Other” section.

  • Emoji – for when you’re not sure when to use those cute little images
  • Clap Case – when you need audience participation
  • Small Caps – looks a little odd, but unique
  • Upside Down – (I didn’t even know the iPad could DO this!)

Settings in Text Case

If you’re never going to need some of these conversion options, just tap into Settings and you can choose which conversion formats are displayed, and even change their order.

Also, here’s an incredibly helpful tip in Settings – let’s say you have some words like iPad or McDonalds or eDiscovery that have uppercase letters in the middle of the word, but if you use the Title Case or Sentence Case, it won’t handle the capitalization properly …

To make sure the words ARE typed correctly, tap “Custom Nouns” and here you can add these words with the correct upper and lower case letters so they’re always correct!

Lastly, Text Case offers different themes for the app, and you can even customize the app icon!

Siri Shortcuts

In addition to the copy & paste methods that we walked through, Text Case works wonderfully with Siri Shortcuts so you can go in and create a Shortcut there – that’s like automating the automation!

By the way, if you’re iffy on Siri Shortcuts, you should absolutely check out David Spark’s Field Guide.

Conclusion

For $2.99, Text Case is a useful utility app for when you’re typing and working with text on your iPad and iPhone. It’s definitely a worthwhile addition to your iOS text-wielding toolbelt.

There’s also a Mac app as well!

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