Trimming
A caption, when combined with an input control, usually ends with a colon and a space. So, you get “Name: “, “Address: “, etc. Here’s a tip: add them separately during presentation. Especially when you dynamically insert captions from a database or XML-file (e.g. because the application is multilingual). This avoids problems with RTRIM/trimming in general, and programmers who are sloppy about copy. I’m still undecided whether a caption should start with an uppercase or a lowercase. A caption is not a sentence–It doesn’t normally end with a full point–and it is not a title, so a lowercase is acceptable. But uppercasing the first letter seems to be the de facto norm.
