# How to Format Text Entry in Glide?

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**Created:** [January 14, 2025, 6:33am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-format-text-entry-in-glide/79186 "2025-01-14T06:33:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yvann](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/yvann/32/67879_2.png) [@Yvann](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Yvann)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 6:33am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-format-text-entry-in-glide/79186/1 "2025-01-14T06:33:52Z")

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Hi everyone!

I have a **Text Entry component** , and I want the text entered by users to be automatically formatted like this: **First letter capitalized, the rest lowercase**.

Does anyone know how to do this in Glide?

Thanks for your help! 😊

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 6:44am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-format-text-entry-in-glide/79186/2 "2025-01-14T06:44:54Z")

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The easiest way is to add a Capitalise Text column, and use that for display purposes.

> **[Capitalize Text column | Glide](https://www.glideapps.com/plugins/capitalize)**
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> Converts the first character of string to upper case and the remaining to lower case.

If you actually want to convert it before it’s saved to the table, then you would need to use a custom form.

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-format-text-entry-in-glide/79186/3 "2025-01-14T13:56:56Z")

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You could try the custom AI component and make your own text entry.

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**Author:** ![Yvann](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/yvann/32/67879_2.png) [@Yvann](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Yvann)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 8:14am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-format-text-entry-in-glide/79186/4 "2025-01-15T08:14:52Z")

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Could you have an example please to use the custom AI component for that ?

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**Author:** ![Yvann](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/yvann/32/67879_2.png) [@Yvann](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Yvann)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 8:15am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-format-text-entry-in-glide/79186/5 "2025-01-15T08:15:22Z")

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Plugins are official ?

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 8:27am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-format-text-entry-in-glide/79186/6 "2025-01-15T08:27:32Z")

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Yes, some of them are just documented separately.

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 12:01am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-format-text-entry-in-glide/79186/7 "2025-01-16T00:01:38Z")

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> [@Yvann](#):
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> Could you have an example please to use the custom AI component for that ?

There’s no official example, I think you can just try to prompt what you need, and connect the field you want to write to, to the AI component.

Adjust accordingly in each step based on what it outputs to the screen.