Iphoto 11 renaming a face

Hi all,
wonder if someone can help me do a relatively simple thing!
I have iPhoto 11 and have a couple of hundred pictures imported, most of these are of my children and I have added their faces to the Face Corkboard. Alls fine except one of the names for some reason hasn't got a capital letter at the beginning!
OK, yes I know its really picky, but its not so much about changing this, but more a case of finding out how to do it now!
I've clicked to edit the name, however when I put the capital letter in to replace the lower case letter, it defaults to the lowercase and saves! Its got me pulling my hair out as it should be such an easy thing to do!
Would someone please be able to tell me where iPhoto gets its face names from and how to update this.
Many thanks

If you've not already found it, I found the answer under a slightly different problem but ....
On Faces select the one you want to rename and double click it.
on the next screen with all their pictures just click on the name on the top of the screen and overtype
Worked for me anyway

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