Text Editing & Formatting

Capitalize Words

Start each selected word with a capital letter.

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Overview

What Capitalize Words does

Start each selected word with a capital letter. It runs locally and handles the selected text without contacting a service.

CategoryText Editing & Formatting
Action typeJavaScript
Default resultReplace selected text by default
InternetNot required

Example

Action and outcome

Capitalize Words example
ActionOutcome
Capitalize WordsSelected text: NICK'S best dog’s FURNick's Best Dog’s Fur

Workflow

Use Capitalize Words

Follow these steps to start each selected word with a capital letter with ActionClip.

  1. Select the text you want to use.
  2. Choose Capitalize Words from ActionClip.
  3. In editable text, ActionClip replaces the selection immediately. In read-only text, it opens the result for review and copying.

Before you add it

Requirements and privacy

  • Before you start: No setup required.
  • Your selected text: Runs locally in ActionClip’s JavaScript sandbox. Selected text does not leave your Mac.

Inspect before installing

Action script

The script below is included so you can inspect how the action works before downloading it.

JavaScript definition
function run(selected_text) {
  return selected_text.replace(/(\p{L}+[\u0027\u2019]\p{L}+|\p{L}+)/gu, function (word) {
    var lower = word.toLocaleLowerCase();
    return lower.slice(0, 1).toLocaleUpperCase() + lower.slice(1);
  });
}