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Title Case (Most Words Are Capitalized)

Use title case for:

  • Menu itemsNavigation items (navigation pane, upper navigation, navigation menu)

  • Tab headings

  • Titles

  • Titles of dialog boxes

  • Table Headings

  • Window headers

  • Buttons

  • Ribbon section headers

  • Statistics names

Examples:

Navigation Items

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Tab headings, titles of dialog boxes

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Window header, tab headings

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Ribbon section header

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Statistics

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Do capitalize

  • The first letter of nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and pronouns

  • The first and last words of the text element

  • The second word of a hyphenated compound unless it is an article or preposition (for example: Quick-Search Options and Add-on Choices).

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Use sentence case for for everything else (including buttonstitles, labels of fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, drop down list, column headers in a table, image captions, body copy, secondary editorial subheadings and so on).

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