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Edit Titles

The Edit Titles dialog is a set of manual tools for cleaning up chapter titles in bulk: Find & Replace, Change Case, Add/Remove Text, Sequence Numbering, Convert Numbers, and Tidy. Every tool shows a live preview of how titles will change before anything is applied, making it a fully manual alternative to AI Cleanup. To access the dialog, open the Action Bar Menu and click Edit Titles.

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Pick a tool from the Tool dropdown at the top of the dialog. Your inputs for each tool are kept while the dialog is open, so you can freely switch tools without losing the current preferences.

Choosing chapters

The bottom half of the dialog is a preview list showing every chapter, each with a checkbox. Only the checked chapters will be affected by the current tool. Shift-click a checkbox to toggle every chapter in the range between it and your last click. Use the play button to preview a chapter's audio.

For each affected chapter, the list shows the original title alongside the new title it will receive, and the header shows how many titles will change.

Clicking Apply commits the previewed changes but keeps the dialog open, so tools can be chained: for example Tidy, then Find & Replace, then Sequence Numbering. Each Apply is a single action in the Undo history.

Tools

Find & Replace

Replaces every occurrence of the search text within each title. Matching is case-insensitive unless Match case is enabled.

  • Regex interprets the search text as a regular expression. Use $1, $2, … in the replacement to insert capture groups, $& for the whole match, and $$ for a literal dollar sign. Invalid patterns show an error and disable the Apply button.
  • Preserve case attempts to match the case of the text being replaced: replacing chapter with part turns CHAPTER into PART, Chapter into Part, and chapter into part.

Change Case

Converts titles to Title Case, Sentence case, UPPERCASE, or lowercase.

Title Case keeps short words like a, of, the lowercase (except at the start or end of a title, or after a colon), and handles apostrophes correctly (Don't Look Back, O'Brien's Return). With Keep Roman numerals uppercase enabled, numerals stay intact: CHAPTER XIV becomes Chapter XIV rather than Chapter Xiv.

Add or Remove Text

Adds text to the start or end of each title, or removes text from either end: either a matching prefix/suffix or a fixed number of characters.

Sequence Numbering

Adds a sequence of numbers using a template. In the template, {n} becomes the sequence number and {title} the chapter's current title:

  • Chapter {n} → Chapter 1, Chapter 2, …
  • {n}. {title} → 1. Introduction, 2. The Journey, …

The filled template replaces each title by default, or can instead be added to the start or end of the existing title using the placement dropdown.

Numbering follows the checked chapters in list order, so you can uncheck a prologue or epilogue and still get a contiguous sequence. The starting number is configurable, and numbers can be formatted as digits (1), zero-padded digits (01, 001), Roman numerals (XIV / xiv), or words (Fourteen / fourteen).

Convert Numbers

Converts numbers found in titles (digits, Roman numerals, or spelled-out words like Twenty-One) to the chosen format: digits, Roman numerals, or words.

By default, only numbers acting as chapter markers are converted: numbers that follow a structural word (Chapter, Part, Book, Volume, Section, Episode, …), start the title (1. Introduction, Five: What now?, One the Beginning), or make up the entire title. Mid-title numbers (Catch Twenty-Two) are protected, along with leading numbers that are likely title words, such as One of Us Is Lying, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and I Am Legend. Uncheck the Only chapter numbers option to convert every number.

Tidy

The configurable version of the Quick Tidy button. Each option can be toggled individually:

  • Fix whitespace: Trims leading/trailing whitespace and removes duplicate whitespace.
  • Remove trailing punctuation: Strips trailing periods, commas, colons, and dashes. ?, !, and ellipses are kept, since they usually end a title intentionally.
  • Convert chapter numbers: Chapter Fourteen / Chapter XIV → Chapter 14, in your choice of digits, Roman numerals, or words. Only numbers acting as chapter markers are touched, as described in Convert Numbers.
  • Separator after chapter number: Chapter 14 The Sea Voyage → Chapter 14: The Sea Voyage, using a colon, dash, period, or custom separator. An existing separator after the number is converted to your choice, so with the dash selected, Chapter 2: The Next Step becomes Chapter 2 - The Next Step. A number that starts the title is treated as a chapter number too (3. Undaunted → 3: Undaunted), while continuation phrases like Chapter 2 of Frankenstein are left alone.
  • Change case: Title Case, Sentence case, UPPERCASE, or lowercase, as described in Change Case, keeping Roman numerals uppercase.

Click Save as Quick Tidy defaults to persist the current configuration; the Quick Tidy button will use it from then on. The Tidy tool loads your saved configuration whenever the dialog opens.

Quick Tidy

The Quick Tidy button in the Action Bar Menu applies your saved Tidy preferences to the currently selected chapters in a single click. With the default settings, it is the quickest way to clean up common transcription artifacts like ALL-CAPS titles and trailing periods:

CHAPTER FOURTEEN THE SEA VOYAGE. → Chapter 14: The Sea Voyage

The settings button opens the Tidy tool directly, where you can preview exactly what your configuration will do to the current titles, and change it.

The whole cleanup is a single action in the Undo history. If you want to review the changes first or apply only some of the fixes, use the Tidy tool in the Edit Titles dialog instead.