Skrooge newbie: "=capitalize =capwords =lower =trim =upper"?

A Newbie question (last one!), following on from my “Skrooge newbie: introduction” post (can’t link? mostly background info, not really necessary to read)…

Some of the drop downs (e.g. Mode, Comment and others) contain these cryptic entries? (“=capitalize =capwords =lower =trim =upper”)


What are they for? How are they used? Should they be there?

In text fields, you can use special keywords (such as =capitalize) to transform the existing values. For example, if you select 100 transactions, enter =lower in the Comment field, and click Update, the comments of all selected transactions will be replaced with their lowercase versions.

I added this sentence in the documentation.

That’s ingenious and clever, but … not particularly obvious :slightly_smiling_face:

yes, a note in the handbook would help :+1: