ContactsLaw helps users to produce consistent, readable information by providing automatic text formatting for many fields within the application. Automatic formatting means that ContactsLaw may alter what you type, during or after you finish entering information. 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:

Permitting/disallowing numbers
Restricting input to a single word only
Disallowing consecutive spaces (whitespace)
Forcing input to begin with a capital letter
Forcing title case (all words except conjunctions begin with a capital letter)
Forcing input to be entirely upper or lower case

Note: Internal capitalisation is always permitted, therefore it cannot apply formatting to input that is completely uppercase.

Toggle automatic formatting

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 suspended in the Desktop App 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.

Note: When formatting is disabled, you may be able to enter values which are not considered valid. This does not override validation rules.