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How to capitalize the first letter after colon in a Word document?

Author: Xiaoyang Last Modified: 2024-08-29

If you need to capitalize the first letters after colons in a Word document, to change them one by one manually will not be a good choice. In this article, I will talk about a way to change the first lowercase letter to uppercase letter after the colons as quickly as possible.

Capitalize the first letters after colons with VBA code in a Word document

Capitalize the first letters after colons with VBA code in a Word document

The following VBA code can help you to make all the first letters uppercase after the colons in the whole Word document to capitalize, please do as this:

1. Hold down the ALT + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. Click Insert > Module, and paste the following code in the Module Window.

VBA code: Capitalize the first letters after colons:

Sub CapitalizeWordAfterColon()
    Application.ScreenUpdating = False
    Selection.HomeKey wdStory
    With Selection.Find
        .ClearFormatting
        .Text = ": ([a-z])"
        .Forward = True
        .Wrap = wdFindContinue
        .Format = False
        .MatchWholeWord = False
        .MatchSoundsLike = False
        .MatchCase = False
        .MatchWildcards = True
        .MatchAllWordForms = False
        With .Replacement.Font
          .AllCaps = True
          .SmallCaps = False
        End With
    End With
    Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
    Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

3. Then, press F5 key to run this code, and all the first letters after the colons have been converted to uppercase letters at once, see screenshot:

All the first letters after colons are capitalized

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