The Strange Case of Change Case

My company's name is MCS. When I'm writing in caps, and then I want to re-use that text in sentence case I use Indesign's change case feature to change caps to sentence case. When ever my company's name is in the copy, I always have to go back and re-write it as upper case. I'm afraid that one day Ill forget to do it.
Is there a setting that I could choose so that this particular combination of letters is always written in caps?

MagicToaster wrote:
My company's name is MCS. When I'm writing in caps, and then I want to re-use that text in sentence case I use Indesign's change case feature to change caps to sentence case. When ever my company's name is in the copy, I always have to go back and re-write it as upper case. I'm afraid that one day Ill forget to do it.
Is there a setting that I could choose so that this particular combination of letters is always written in caps?
In Preverences > Autocorrect, enter the lowercase as wrong and uppercase as correct.
Enable Edit > Spelling > Autocorrect - a check mark indicates it's enabled.
An alternate is to create a text variable and insert it where needed. You can speed up inserting a text variable by using Quick Apply.
Search Google for terms like "InDesign autocorrect tutorial," "InDesign text variable," and "InDesign preferences," without quotes, for details.
HTH
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