GeneralCapitalize first letter of every word

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darckhart
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Capitalize first letter of every word

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Hi all. I'm looking for a way to capitalize the first letter of every word in a given block of text. Something to the effect of:
\begin{capitalize}
i want to capitalize every word of this sentence.\\
and this one too.\\
\end{capitalize}

which would of course display like:
I Want To Capitalize Every Word ....etc

Also it would have to work on text inside a table/tabular environment. I assume I'd have to write some custom macro, but I'm not savvy enough with latex yet to do this. Can anyone give me some pointers? Thanks.

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Capitalize first letter of every word

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darckhart
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Re: Capitalize first letter of every word

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Hm, yes very close to the first post. The reason is I'm keeping a separate table of expressions/titles and it would look more presentable if each item had every word capitalized. However, in the main text I may refer to the expression without capitalizing every word if, for example, it was in the middle of a sentence. I was thinking I might pass the whole expression as an argument to the macro which would check for a space and then apply \uppercase to the first letter immediately following. But then I also don't know how to break up the word into its component letters and only \uppercase the first letter of the word. So I'm stuck.
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