ContactsLaw helps users to produce consistent, readable information by providing automatic text formatting for many fields within the application. Automatic formatting means that ContactsLaw will automatically change the case of the letters you type. For example, matter names will always begin with a capital letter and business names will always use title case.

 

The following types of formatting and constraints are applied to various fields:

Note: ContactsLaw always permits internal capitalisation, therefore it cannot apply formatting to completely-uppercase input. To manually apply different text casing, use one of the keyboard shortcuts listed here.

There are some occasions when this automatic formatting is not desired (e.g. business trading names that intentionally begin with a lowercase letter). Automatic text formatting can be suspending by pressing the Scroll Lock key. While scroll lock is on, the background of the input control will change colour and formatting will not be applied.