Problems with capital letters when importing a word file

[Be a Light to the World]

I prepare booklets from word file I receive from different people, let's say Mr. A, Mr. B and Mr. C.

When I import a word file from Mr. A and Mr. B, there is no problem. Everything appears correctly: capital letters at the begging of each sentence appears in capital, and the rest of the text in small letters. Everything ok.

But, when I import a word file from Mr. C, all the text appears in capital letters in Affinity (which is not the case in the word file, where capital letters are used only at the begging of each sentence).

I don’t know if the problem is the word file I received from Mr. C, or something I need to change in settings.

Can you tell me how to solve the problem?

[walt.farrell]

We would probably need to see the Word file. Is it something you can share here, or will you need a private upload link from the Moderators when they get to this topic?

[Be a Light to the World]

Thank you for your reply. I'm not allowed to share this file as it is privat information. There is any thing in the word file I must check?

Edited January 17, 2023 by Be a Light to the World

[walt.farrell]

Nothing I know of. Sorry. Perhaps someone else will know.

[Old Bruce]

6 hours ago, Be a Light to the World said:

But, when I import a word file from Mr. C, all the text appears in capital letters in Affinity (which is not the case in the word file, where capital letters are used only at the begging of each sentence).

Perhaps Word has a setting or formate for the text called Sentence Case. This could turn ALL CAPS text into what you are describing. But it may not actually change the Case of the text in the Word document. 

[Gra62]

I have a similar problem.

My client supplied a Word doc that is consistent throughout as sentence case, but when I imported it it has changed to all caps halfway through.

I should mention that the document has some custom fonts, but these aren't the issue. Nothing I do seems to change it.

[MEB]

Hi @Gra62,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Any chance you can duplicate the document and delete most of its content leaving just one or two sentences that don't reveal much so we can check it out please?
Thank you.

[Gra62]

Hi Meb,

Thanks for the quick response.

I got the client's permission to send one of the chapters

Sample.zip

[kenmcd]

44 minutes ago, Gra62 said:

Hi Meb,

Thanks for the quick response.

I got the client's permission to send one of the chapters

Sample.zip 15.69 MB · 2 downloads

All Caps is selected on the text.

Select all the text.
And un-select the All Caps.
All returns to normal.

[Gra62]

Thank you... I never would have found that. I kept trying to change using the capitalisation in the text drop down menu which it just wouldn't respond to.

This is the job I've used Affinity on after 25 years using InDesign