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New South Wales’ Uppercase Requirement

Posted by Josh Withers | Jun 25, 2020 | The Business of Celebrancy | 3 |

If you’ve been lucky enough to create a marriage ceremony recently, and it was in New South Wales, you might have noticed a change to their eRegistry software that requires all last names to be in UPPERCASE.

If you’re like me, you know this, but still type the names in Title Case when using the NSW BDM.

So if you’re using a Mac, here’s a tip. Right click on the selected text, in the context menu that appears, choose “Transformations”, and then “Make Upper Case”.

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Josh Withers

Josh is a Hobart celebrant who has created thousands of marriage ceremonies in over 20 countries since 2009, based in Tasmania's Huon Valley with his wife Britt and two daughters. In 2016, with Sarah Aird, he co-founded the Celebrant Institute and specialises in the business of celebrancy and the art of present and intimate ceremony.

3 Comments

Jeremy B on June 26, 2020 at 11:33 am

Every. Flipping. Time.

Thanks mate.
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Alison Pickel on June 27, 2020 at 2:55 pm

I just tried this on Chrome (my preferred browser) and sadly it doesn’t have this option. Might be worth switching to Safari for this.
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Narelle Murray on July 21, 2020 at 10:21 am

It’s a standard requirement so why can’t BDM change their field to automatically convert to capitals?
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