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Paste text written in ALL CAPS or with random capitals and get clean sentence case back, with I, acronyms like NASA and brand names like iPhone left as they should be. Need a headline instead? Switch to Title Case in AP, APA, Chicago or MLA style, or to lowercase, UPPERCASE, camelCase, snake_case or kebab-case.
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Last updated: October 5, 2026 · Published: 2026-04-09 · Updated: 2026-10-05
Capital at the start of each sentence, the rest lowercase. Keeps I, acronyms and brand names.
Separate with commas. Each one is written exactly as you type it.
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Sentence case
I just bought a new iPhone. It was 3.5 times the price of my old phone! Is that normal? Check example.com for the NASA launch date.
4 letters changed.
Your text in all 8 cases
Sentence case means capitalizing a sentence, heading or title the way you would write an ordinary sentence: only the first word starts with a capital letter, along with proper nouns, acronyms and the word I. Everything else is lowercase. “How to write a headline that people want to read” is in sentence case.
A sentence case converter does this automatically. It is most useful for text pasted from PDFs, spreadsheets and old systems in all capitals, for text typed with Caps Lock on, and for switching headings from title case to sentence case to match a style guide.
Paste your text
Paste anything from one heading to a whole document. Each line can be its own title, and nothing is uploaded.
Choose a case
Pick Sentence case, Title Case (AP, APA, Chicago or MLA), lowercase, UPPERCASE, Capitalize Each Word, camelCase, snake_case or kebab-case. Add names to Keep these words so they keep their capitals.
Copy the result
Copy the converted text, or copy all 8 versions at once. Use as input lets you convert the result again.
The same headline in each case the converter writes, and where each one is normally used.
| Case | Example | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| Sentence case | How to write a headline that people want to read | Headings at Google, Microsoft, GOV.UK and Wikipedia; AP headlines; body text and buttons |
| Title Case | How to Write a Headline That People Want to Read | Book, film and song titles; APA paper titles and headings; many magazine headlines |
| lowercase | how to write a headline that people want to read | Email addresses, informal posts, a clean start before re-capitalizing |
| UPPERCASE | HOW TO WRITE A HEADLINE THAT PEOPLE WANT TO READ | Acronyms, short labels and warnings; best avoided for long text |
| Capitalize Each Word | How To Write A Headline That People Want To Read | Names, places and lists of items; social media headlines |
| camelCase | howToWriteAHeadlineThatPeopleWantToRead | Variable and function names in JavaScript and Java |
| snake_case | how_to_write_a_headline_that_people_want_to_read | Python variables and functions, database column names |
| kebab-case | how-to-write-a-headline-that-people-want-to-read | URL slugs, CSS class names and file names |
Real output from the converter. A simple converter lowercases everything and capitalizes after every full stop, which breaks decimals, web addresses, abbreviations and acronyms.
| What it does | You type | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Capitalizes the first word of each sentence | the cat sat. the dog ran! did it rain? | The cat sat. The dog ran! Did it rain? |
| Fixes text typed in all capitals | PLEASE READ THE MANUAL BEFORE USE. THANK YOU! | Please read the manual before use. Thank you! |
| Fixes random capitals | tHIS iS mY tExT. iT lOOKS oDD. | This is my text. It looks odd. |
| Always capitalizes I | i think i'm right, and i've checked twice. | I think I'm right, and I've checked twice. |
| Keeps acronyms and brand names | my new iPhone has the NASA app and YouTube. it works well. | My new iPhone has the NASA app and YouTube. It works well. |
| Leaves decimals, web addresses and emails alone | prices rose 3.5 percent. see example.com or email help@example.com. | Prices rose 3.5 percent. See example.com or email help@example.com. |
| Doesn't start a sentence after abbreviations | we met dr. kim at 9 a.m. in the U.S. today. | We met Dr. kim at 9 a.m. in the U.S. today. |
| Handles quotes and brackets | "hello," she said. (then she left.) | "Hello," she said. (Then she left.) |
| Treats an ellipsis as a pause | wait... what happened? | Wait... what happened? |
| Names come out right with Keep these wordsKeep these words: Paris, Monday | we flew to paris on monday. | We flew to Paris on Monday. |
Names it can’t recognize, like kim in the abbreviation example, stay lowercase unless you add them to Keep these words. Read the result before you publish it.
Both are correct. What matters is following the style you’re writing for and using it consistently.
| Style guide | Headings and headlines | Titles of books, articles and other works |
|---|---|---|
| AP Stylebook | Sentence case for headlines; the first word after a colon is capitalized | Title case for books, films and songs |
| APA (7th edition) | Title case for the paper title and headings | Sentence case for article and book titles in the reference list |
| Chicago Manual of Style | Headline or sentence style, used consistently | Title case (headline style) in text and citations |
| MLA (9th edition) | Title case for the paper's title | Title case in text and the works cited list |
| Microsoft Style Guide | Sentence case for headings, blog posts and documentation | Title case for books, white papers, games and events |
| Google developer documentation | Sentence case for all titles and headings | The original capitalization of outside works |
| GOV.UK | Sentence case everywhere, even page titles | Sentence case, in single quotes |
| Wikipedia | Sentence case for article titles and section headings | Title case for books, films and songs |
Sentence case has become the default for websites, apps and documentation because it is quicker to apply and easier to read, and it avoids arguments over which small words to capitalize.
All capitals is the hardest to read. In a 1928 study by Miles Tinker and Donald Paterson, all-capital text was read about 12 percent more slowly than lowercase. A 2017 eye-tracking study that controlled for the extra width of capital letters found a smaller cost, around 5 percent.
Every style capitalizes the first word and all nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and pronouns. They disagree about the small words.
| Words | AP | APA | Chicago | MLA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| a, an, the | lowercase | lowercase | lowercase | lowercase |
| and, but, or, nor | lowercase | lowercase | lowercase | lowercase |
| for | lowercase | lowercase | lowercase | lowercase |
| so, yet | lowercase | lowercase | Capitalized | lowercase |
| if | lowercase | lowercase | Capitalized | Capitalized |
| to | lowercase | lowercase | lowercase | lowercase |
| at, by, in, of, on | lowercase | lowercase | lowercase | lowercase |
| from, into, with, over | Capitalized | Capitalized | lowercase | lowercase |
| about, after, between, without | Capitalized | Capitalized | Capitalized | lowercase |
| is, be, it, its, that | Capitalized | Capitalized | Capitalized | Capitalized |
| Last word | Always capitalized | Only if a major word | Always capitalized | Always capitalized |
Chicago’s 18th edition (2024) changed its rule: prepositions of five letters or more, like about and between, are now capitalized. Earlier editions lowercased prepositions of any length. All four styles capitalize the first word after a colon, and APA and Chicago capitalize both parts of a hyphenated compound like Self-Report but not the word after a prefix, as in Pre-existing.
| Typed as | AP | APA | Chicago | MLA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| a guide to living with less: how to find what matters | A Guide to Living With Less: How to Find What Matters | A Guide to Living With Less: How to Find What Matters | A Guide to Living with Less: How to Find What Matters | A Guide to Living with Less: How to Find What Matters |
| catch me if you can | Catch Me if You Can | Catch Me if You Can | Catch Me If You Can | Catch Me If You Can |
| life without limits and the road between | Life Without Limits and the Road Between | Life Without Limits and the Road Between | Life Without Limits and the Road Between | Life without Limits and the Road Between |
| what are you waiting for | What Are You Waiting For | What Are You Waiting for | What Are You Waiting For | What Are You Waiting For |
| self-report measures in pre-existing groups | Self-Report Measures in Pre-existing Groups | Self-Report Measures in Pre-existing Groups | Self-Report Measures in Pre-existing Groups | Self-Report Measures in Pre-existing Groups |
Some words change with grammar: up is capitalized in Give Up, where it is an adverb, but not in up the Hill, and AP capitalizes to in an infinitive such as Born To Run. A converter can’t parse grammar, so check these by eye.
Built-in options, and which of them can make sentence case.
| App | How | Sentence case? |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Word | Select text, press Shift+F3, or use Change Case (Aa) on the Home tab | Yes, in the Change Case menu |
| Google Docs | Format, then Text, then Capitalization | No: lowercase, UPPERCASE and Title Case only |
| Excel and Google Sheets | =LOWER(A1), =UPPER(A1) or =PROPER(A1) | No: PROPER capitalizes every word |
| This converter | Paste, choose a case, copy | Yes, keeping I, acronyms and the words you list |
Word’s Shift+F3 cycles through lowercase, UPPERCASE and Capitalize Each Word; on a Mac you may need to hold Fn as well. None of these built-in tools keeps acronyms when it lowercases text.
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