Reformatting of text

I changed to a Mac recently and am delighted with it.
However, I am having a slight problem changing the format of some text - all caps to title caps or all lower case etc.
I have looked through the manual and can successfully manage to use Format>Font>capitalisation in many instances but in some documents this just doesn't make the change.
I found a similar query within this forum that advised downloading 'wordservice' and have done that but my difficulty remains with some documents.
I am emailled many documents in Word which I'm required to edit/format and as some are almost completely typed in upper case it is an extremely lengthy task to re-type everything.
I'm wondering if someone can advise how I can overcome this? I'm sorry my knowledge of computers is fairly basic!

Hi,
Thanks for a quick response!
If the words are in caps, I select them and then use Format>Font>Capitalisation>Title - this works in some documents and the characters are duly changed; in other documents the characters still remain as caps. All documents are emailed to me in Word using the same template.
I have downloaded 'wordservice' and certainly other options are now appearing but perhaps I haven't downloaded or installed it correctly?
I'll try to explain a bit more for instance:
MY FORMATTING!
I want to change the above words to the first letter of each word having a capital letter (title case).
When I select the words ‘MY FORMATTING!’ and then go to Format>Font>Capitalisation>Title nothing happens.
After downloading ‘wordservice’ I now find I have some additional options under Pages>Services>Reformat
- I again select ‘MY FORMATTING!’ and try Pages>Services>Reformat but that doesn’t work either. I've tried doing that and then going back and again attempting Format>Font>Capitalisation>Title but still characters remain as caps.
Is there a further step that I should be incorporating?
For the documents I've subbed so far this week I've ended up having to copy them from my Mac onto a memory stick, open & change the formatting on my old PC then take memory stick back to the Mac to do the rest of the formatting - I'd much rather use the Mac to do the whole process as it is certainly a much superior machine and other than this slight hiccup (probably caused by operator error on my part) I also think Pages is excellent.
Sorry this is quite long winded!

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To try to explain it in different (and probably still not correct) terminology, Safari on the iPhone acts like it's formatting the text of even my simple HTML text pages for a large physical "page", and giving me a choice of how I want to view it. I can zoom out and see the whole piece of text, but the font is so tiny that it's unreadable (even with a magnifying glass . Or I can zoom in, in which case the screen becomes a small window that shows only a small portion of the text, and I have to pan left and right to read it, because the "page" width is now several times the screen width. Both choices make for slow, difficult reading.
I don't see this behavior in any other of the couple dozen browsers on 4 or 5 machines. What they do is respond to a change in the "window" size by reformatting the text so it fits within the window's width, scrolling off the bottom if there's too much text. This is easy to read, because vertical scrolling works well on all of them, and there's no need to pan left and right while reading a line of text.
This was pretty much how HTML and browsers were originally intended to work, with the browser doing line wrapping as needed to fit the available screen width. The screen as a window into a much larger page is seen much less often. When it is seen, it's mostly because the web designers included lots of "width=" attributes to force the page to be some minimum width, typically much wider that any smartphone's screen. But my test pages don't do this, and all other browsers successfully format them to be readable even in very narrow windows. Our iPhone's Safari doesn't seem to do this formatting; it formats the text for a width wider than the screen even when there's no formatting information in the HTML.
The obvious question is: Can the iPhone's Safari be persuaded to use more common scheme of doing line-wrapping to make the text fit into the visible screen?
The G1's browser has an especially impressive demo of how it could be done. If I rotate that gadget, it reformats between portrait and landscape mode on the fly, and the text is always line-wrapped to fit the current screen width. So a paragraph that takes, say, 7 lines in portrait mode will switch to 4 lines as I rotate it to landscape mode, with the same font size. The iPhone has the same sort of switching, of course, but it "reformats" the text by changing the zoom factor, which isn't nearly the same thing. And for some of my test pages, the text runs off the right margin in both portrait and landscape mode. I have no clue why it chooses a "page" width that's so much wider than the screen, sometimes 4 or 5 times the screen width, but that's what it does, and it's very hard to read.
So is there a way to tell it to stop doing this, and use line wrapping like other browsers do to fit the text into the visible screen width?

Compact text in an email

I often get emails that have the text in a narrow column strung out for mages. Is there a way to reformate this text into a wide compact page?

just found something from vodafone.uk so Its not a local issue.....
did you see/ try this?
"Thank you for your post and a very warm welcome to the eForum from myself and the team.
This is the first time I have come across this issue and I have been unable to recreate this here in the office however as you mention this has happened on two different devices it doesn't sound like the phone.
Please could you ensure that you are using the latest software for your device.
After doing some research I found a similar article that affected Gmail accounts, please could you try the below method and let me know how you get on.
Open up the "Settings" tab within your Hotmail account. Enable "IMAP" under the "Forwarding" section. After completing this process, you will need to reintegrate your Hotmail account with your BlackBerry.
Many Thanks
DaveCD
eForum Team"

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