Changing case in a style ?

In IDCS2, is there a way of using a style to change case of a piece of text, or would this have to be done by scripting?
Anyone know, please ?
Bran

You're right, mate, and I realise in hindsight I was inspecific in the wording of my first post.
What I was hoping to be able to do was toggle the case between lower, upper and title case, as needed.
I'm out of my depth with scripting -- I wouldn't have a clue where to start. But in any event, am I wrong in thinking that, except in cases where the required change was regular and predictable, a script would have to be invoked manually anyway ? For my purposes, for ad-hoc sub-editing and formatting, I'm guessing it would be just as easy to use the menu.
But thanks, jongware. I appreciate your comments.

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