Text Transform

This shortcut transforms text in the clipboard according to the string passed into the shortcut:

• upper: UPPERCASE
• lower: lowercase
• capitalize: Capitalize
• title: Title Case
• sentence: Sentence case
• alternating: AlTeRnAtInG cAsE
• trim: Trim Whitespace
• slug: Slug
• clear: Clear the clipboard

If no input is provided to the shortcut, a menu will appear allowing you to choose from one of the following actions:

• Transform: Apply a selected transform to the clipboard contents.
• View Clipboard: View the contents of the clipboard via Quick Look.
• Create Deck: Create a text editing deck in MFC Deck.
• Get MFC Deck: Download MFC Deck from the App Store.
• Quit: Exit the shortcut.

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Create Deck

This option creates a deck named Text Editing in MFC Deck. You can use this as a text editing control panel. If a deck already exists with the name Text Editing, you will be asked if you want to replace the existing deck.

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Using the Text Editing Deck

The Text Editing deck becomes very handy if you have Handoff enabled on your various iCloud-connected devices. This is because changes you make to the clipboard will automatically synced to the other computer.

For instance, suppose you are writing a page for GitHub Pages in Markdown and are creating links to various headings in your document. The headings will automatically be accessible by an HTML Fragment:

# Primary Heading
## Secondary Heading
### Tertiary Heading???
### A Really Long Subheading With Someone's Name

You can use the Text Editing deck to generate the slug for each of the headings without having to manually format them into a slug format.

1. Copy text to the clipboard that you want to slugify.
2. Open MFC Deck.
3. Open the Text Editing deck.
4. Tap the Slug card.

- [Primary Heading](#primary-heading)
- [Secondary Heading](#secondary-heading)
- [Tertiary Heading???](#tertiary-heading)
- [A Really Long Subheading With Someone's Name](#a-really-long-subheading-with-someones-name)

The clipboard contents will be slugified and copied back to the clipboard. The first card shows the contents of the clipboard before and after the transformation.

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Adding Additional Text Transformations

You can modify the Text Transform shortcut to add your own text transformations when running the shortcut or calling it from a deck. You’ll want to keep the following things in mind:

• The contents of the clipboard are contained within the Text variable.
• The Transform variable will contain a lowercased string that you must match to an If clause.
• Your code should return the string that will be copied back to the clipboard.
• Add your transform string name (lowercase not required)
• Add a Create Card action in the routine which creates a new deck in MFC Deck. Duplicate an existing Create Card action and change the shortcut input to the name of your transform method.

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