Getting all lower case text

[Anonymous]

I am in Revit 2017.  I am trying to avoid a lot of typing.  I have several notes that it was just decided to make into Coded notes.  I want to just copy the note and paste it into a Keynote list.. The existing text is all caps.  When I copy and paste it into the Keynote text line it all becomes lower case.  What is happening here?  Is there a work around for this?  The tool to switch text from lower to upper case is not available in the Keynote tools.

Help

Thanks

Nardo

[ToanDN]

Do they change to lower case when you copy paste onto another text editor, say, a Word file? If so, paste all the content of the text notes to Word and change case there before bring them to your keynotes.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the advise.  However I had already tried that.  They stay Upper case through the whole thing until I pasted them into the Keynote text area.  Then they are lower case.

Is there an easy way to change the text in the Keynote text field to uppercase?

[ToanDN]

Not that I know of. Can you paste a piece of the text on a new file and
upload it here?
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-Toan

[RDAOU]

Keynote files are tab delimited files which you can edit in MS Excel...

Just open it in excel > make a new sheet >
1. set formula to copy cells from sheet 1 caps to sheet 2 lower cases...then save the new sheet as a txt tab delimited file
2. Or open both the one u want to copy from and your keynotes list both in excel and do the same as above from one file to the other!

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

I looked around in Word and found that if I first removed formatting and then changed everything to 'Uppercase', then everything remains as Uppercase when pasted back into Revit. 

So removing the formatting then changing everything to Uppercase is a quick work around for this issue.  Word worked too easily to try the Excel fix.

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[RDAOU]

@Anonymous

Excel isn't a fix lol it is how one maintains keynote files...using linked sheets and a master sheet that collects from all users! Our keynote list has over 6000 entries! If one person is to maintain it would be impossible...each descripline engineer has a section related to his trade and he makes the enteries and each types to his liking (lower/upper) ... The excel master sheet unifies the formatting!

It is good practice vs bad practice besides it is not doable in word...but if word is what works for you 🙂 word it shall be ... You are the boss

cheers

[ToanDN]

@Anonymous 

in this case using Word would be a 'fix' and what @RDAOU has suggested would be a better solution for the long term.

We too use Excel to manage Keynotes files, though we are not yet needing to use the master format like he does.  Using formula in Excel is indeed a great way to keep the format consistent.

[Anonymous]

We formate key notes in excel too. previously we had an addin but excel turned out to be better

Word is definitely no good. it might work once or twice but 99% of the time it creates a mess!

[ToanDN]

@Anonymous  I think @Anonymous copied and pasted the notes directly in Revit and not via the keynotes definition file.