Case Converter — Title Case Is Not One Rule
Your text
This text has no upper or lower case letters, so it will come back unchanged.
Convert to
Title Case rule — These stay lowercase unless they are the first or last word, or come straight after . : ? or ! — a, an, and, as, at, but, by, for, in, nor, of, on, or, per, so, the, to, up, via, vs, yet
Result
Line breaks, tabs and repeated spaces are kept exactly as they were.
Conversion is language-neutral. Turkish dotted and dotless i do not follow Turkish rules here.
The text stays in your browser and is never sent anywhere.
About the Case Converter
Paste text, pick a conversion, and the result appears below with the original still in place. Five options: upper, lower, Each Word, Title Case and Sentence case.
Two of those look like the same thing and are not. Each Word capitalizes every word without exception. Title Case leaves short joining words in lowercase — of, the, and, to — unless they open or close the line, or follow a colon, period, question mark or exclamation mark. Style guides disagree about the details, which is exactly why most converters pick one silently and call it title case. Here both are offered, and the list of words the title rule keeps lowercase is printed on the page.
Whitespace is left alone. Line breaks, tabs and runs of spaces come back the way they went in, which matters when the text was copied out of a table or a spreadsheet.
Nothing is sent anywhere. If you need a count rather than a conversion, that is a separate page.
How to use it
- Paste the text first, then choose the conversion. The original stays in its box so you can try a second one without pasting again.
- Use Each Word when every word should be capitalized, such as a list of names. Use Title Case for a headline or a heading.
- Read the rule line under Title Case before trusting it. If your style guide keeps a different set of words lowercase, fix those few by hand.
- For Sentence case, check names afterwards. The rule lowercases everything first, so proper nouns come back lowercase and have to be restored. The one word it puts back on its own is the English pronoun I, including i'm and i'll.
- If the text is Korean, Japanese or Chinese, nothing will change: those scripts have no upper and lower case. The page says so before you press.
Questions
Is it free, and do I need an account?
Free, and there is no account. The conversion happens in your own browser, so there is nothing on our side to sign in to and nothing to store.
Does my text get uploaded?
No. The site is static files and the conversion is a script running on your machine. The text is not transmitted, logged or saved, and closing the tab clears it.
What is the difference between Title Case and Each Word?
Each Word capitalizes everything. Title Case leaves short joining words lowercase in the middle of a line — of, the, and, to and similar — while still capitalizing the first and last word. Which one is correct depends on where the text is going, so both are here.
Why does your title case differ from another tool's?
Because there is no single rule. Style guides disagree about which short words stay lowercase, about words after a colon, and about hyphenated compounds. This page settles all three where you can see them: it prints the list of lowercase words, treats a colon as a fresh start, and capitalizes both halves of a hyphenated compound, so well-known becomes Well-Known. You can see the difference rather than guess at it.
Why did nothing change when I converted Korean or Japanese text?
Korean and Japanese have no upper and lower case, so there is nothing to convert. Latin letters mixed into the same text will still change. The page warns before conversion when it finds no cased letters at all.
Where did the words upper case and lower case come from?
From printing. A compositor kept capital letters in the upper of two type cases and the small letters in the lower one, so the letters were named after the box they lived in. The layout of this page borrows that grid.