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Originally Posted by Timboli
Just tried that, and honestly why people confuse Titlecase with Propercase has always astounded me (Microsoft are you listening).
Titlecase means every word, even 'a' and 'the' are capitalized. There is no option there to do that.
There is Titlecase, Sentence Case and Propercase.
Title means title, so that it doesn't look like a sentence, where only some words are capitalized, or propercase where some specific words are not capitalized. Why a good number of people think it is acceptable to use non capitalized words in a title, and still call it a title, defies logic.
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This is stylistic issue, most writers and editors wouldn't even know Microsoft published a Writing Style Guide in 2012.
They're unlikely to switch from their in-house styles that are usually based on one of the long established de-facto standards -- Chicago University's Manual of Style (1920), the Modern Language Association of America Handbook (1977), Associated Press' Stylebook (1950) or Strunk & White's Elements of Style (1920) or the British equivalents - OUP, Cambridge, Times, Fowlers etc. Here WikiP's list
List of style guides. And that's just for English
The long established style guides have different but often similar standards. For titles, most (all ?) state articles, prepositions, and conjunctions (except the first or last word) should never start with a capital letter, but some impose a sub-rule - except prepositions or conjunctions that are more than N characters in length, which should always start with a capital letter - IIRC MLA is 4 and AP is 5, or vice-versa.
BR