I want to create a shortcut in the Mac Notes app to toggle changing the case of some text. If I set the macro to trigger on shift-ctrl-U I want it to toggle between the Notes menu ... Edit-Transformations-Make Upper Case and Edit-Transformations-Make Lower Case. How can I do this to toggle between upper case and lower case with hitting just this one shortcut?
Hi, @loz. The following macro toggles the case with Notes on Ventura. I've not tested with other versions of macOS. Also,
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During my testing with Notes, the change will be made for a word if the text cursor is within or immediately after a word (i.e., the word does not have to be selected). This is the same behavior you would see if you were selecting the menu items manually.
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As written, the macro would work with other apps if they had the same menu options.
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The current state is saved to a dictionary rather than a global variable. I prefer that method to avoid clutter in the Variables pane of the Keyboard Maestro Settings (aka Preferences).
Download: Toggle Case in Notes.kmmacros (26 KB)
Macro-Notes
- Macros are always disabled when imported into the Keyboard Maestro Editor.
- The user must ensure the macro is enabled.
- The user must also ensure the macro's parent macro-group is enabled.
System Information
- macOS 13.4 (22F66)
- Keyboard Maestro v10.2
These both work well thank you very much. Also has given me a bit of insight how stuff like this needs to be done 
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Here's another option to toggle the case of selected text in any app. It will consider text that contains any lower case letters as lower case.
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