title: Notepad++ and regex: how to UPPERCASE specific part of a string / find / replace
body: <p>i've been trying for some time now to get this working, but i can't find a solution to this task myself - ok, i'm very new to regex-use but quite interested to learn, hope anybody has some brainfood for me...</p>
  
  <p>my text-string is like this - without the numbers...</p>
  
  <p>Word1 Word2 word3 (some words in brackets)<br>
  Word1 (some words in brackets)<br>
  word1, Word2 (some words in brackets)</p>
  
  <p>means: 
  an <strong>indefinite number of words</strong> (sometimes just one, maybe 2 to 4, sometimes separated by commas) followed by a string in round brackets (the value in the brackets should not change)</p>
  
  <p>what i'm looking for is two different regexes - to use with <strong>FIND and REPLACE in notepad++</strong><br>
  <strong>1. only uppercasing of all the words before the brackets<br>
  2. like no.1 + adding html-tags)</strong></p>
  
  <p>should look like: 1:</p>
  
  <p>WORD1 WORD2 WORD3 (some words in brackets)<br>
  WORD1 (some words in brackets)<br>
  WORD1, WORD2 (some words in brackets)  </p>
  
  <p>and 2:</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: 2nd html-tag was at the wrong position, now right!  </p>
  
  <p>%htmltag%WORD1 WORD2 WORD3%/htmltag% (some words in brackets)<br>
  %htmltag%WORD1%/htmltag% (some words in brackets)<br>
  %htmltag%WORD1, WORD2%/htmltag% (some words in brackets)  </p>
  
  <p>hope somebody could help me - thax a lot beforhand!</p>