How to capitalise a title
- Paste your headline into the "Your text" box. For several titles, put each on its own line.
- Keep Title Case selected. It is already chosen on this page, and a short note under the style row reminds you which words stay small.
- Read the capitalised version in the result box. It updates as you edit, so you can tweak the wording and watch the capitals follow.
- Copy it into your CMS, document or email, or download the list as a .txt file.
Features
- Minor words stay lowercase in the middle of a title, as all major style guides require.
- First and last words always capitalised, even if they are short: "What Are You Waiting For".
- Capital after a colon or dash, so subtitles start correctly: "Remote Work: A Guide for Managers".
- Acronyms preserved – PDF, NASA, UK and HTML stay in capitals.
- Hyphenated words capitalised on both sides, such as "Self-Employed" and "Long-Term".
- One title per line for bulk editing.
- Sentence case and Capitalize Each Word on the same row, for comparison.
Title case in AP, Chicago, APA and MLA
The guides agree on the basics: capitalise nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and pronouns, lowercase articles and short conjunctions, and always capitalise the first and last word. They disagree mainly about prepositions.
- AP (news writing) capitalises every word of four or more letters, so "With", "From" and "Into" get capitals.
- APA (academic papers) also capitalises words of four letters or more.
- Chicago (books and publishing) lowercases prepositions whatever their length, so "about", "between" and "through" stay small.
- MLA (humanities) also lowercases all prepositions, and the "to" in infinitives.
This converter sits between them. It lowercases "with", "from", "into" and "over", which follows Chicago and MLA, but it capitalises longer prepositions such as "About" and "Between", which follows AP and APA. For most headlines the result matches all four guides. If your editor follows one guide strictly, check any preposition of four letters or more.
Title case, sentence case or every word?
Title Case suits headlines, book, song and film titles, and the names of reports. Sentence case capitalises only the first word and proper nouns, which many find easier to read in longer headings. Capitalize Each Word capitalises everything, which suits names in a list but looks wrong in a proper headline because "Of" and "The" get capitals.
Why use Fileora's title case converter
Remembering which prepositions to capitalise is fiddly, and inconsistent headings look careless. Pasting a title here gives a consistent answer in a second, and bulk mode means a whole table of contents can be fixed at once.
It's free, private and needs no sign-up. The text never leaves your browser, and the tool works the same on a phone.
Once your headline is ready, turn it into a clean web address with the text to slug tool, check its length with the word counter, or explore other styles in the full case converter.