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How to turn capital letters into lower case without retyping the w
Someone showed me last week how to do this by highlighting the word and using
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Answer: How to turn capital letters into lower case without retyping the w
No worries, I can definitely help you with that! Here's how you can easily change capital letters to lowercase in Microsoft Word without retyping the word:
That's it! This shortcut is a quick and easy way to change the case of text without having to retype it.
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On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:29:01 -0700, Typing lazy Typing
wrote: Someone showed me last week how to do this by highlighting the word and using some keystrokes, but I forgot what they were. I thought it was with Format Painter, but I do not seem to be working it correctly. Any pointers? No, it isn't Format Painter -- not even close. The Change Case command has a shortcut, Shift+F3. Three presses of it cycle through the variations of all caps, all lower case, and capitalize each word. In Word 2003 and earlier, the Change Case command is on the Format menu. In Word 2007 and 2010, there's a button for it in the Font group of the Home ribbon. If you use the menu/button, there's an additional choice, sentence case, that capitalizes only the first word of the selection. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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The behavior of Shift+F3 depends on the text selected. I am painfully aware
that if the selection contains sentence-ending punctuation, you get "Sentence case" instead of "Title Case" (or Capitalize Each Word). I ran into this (again) when trying to reformat a document in which heading paragraphs were all in the form of a question; because of the question mark, I got sentence case instead of the desired title case and had to go through Format | Change Case each time. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:29:01 -0700, Typing lazy Typing wrote: Someone showed me last week how to do this by highlighting the word and using some keystrokes, but I forgot what they were. I thought it was with Format Painter, but I do not seem to be working it correctly. Any pointers? No, it isn't Format Painter -- not even close. The Change Case command has a shortcut, Shift+F3. Three presses of it cycle through the variations of all caps, all lower case, and capitalize each word. In Word 2003 and earlier, the Change Case command is on the Format menu. In Word 2007 and 2010, there's a button for it in the Font group of the Home ribbon. If you use the menu/button, there's an additional choice, sentence case, that capitalizes only the first word of the selection. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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How to turn capital letters into lower case without retyping the w
The behavior of Shift+F3 depends on the text selected. I am painfully aware
that if the selection contains sentence-ending punctuation, you get "Sentence case" instead of "Title Case" (or Capitalize Each Word). I ran into this (again) when trying to reformat a document in which heading paragraphs were all in the form of a question; because of the question mark, I got sentence case instead of the desired title case and had to go through Format | Change Case each time. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:29:01 -0700, Typing lazy Typing wrote: Someone showed me last week how to do this by highlighting the word and using some keystrokes, but I forgot what they were. I thought it was with Format Painter, but I do not seem to be working it correctly. Any pointers? No, it isn't Format Painter -- not even close. The Change Case command has a shortcut, Shift+F3. Three presses of it cycle through the variations of all caps, all lower case, and capitalize each word. In Word 2003 and earlier, the Change Case command is on the Format menu. In Word 2007 and 2010, there's a button for it in the Font group of the Home ribbon. If you use the menu/button, there's an additional choice, sentence case, that capitalizes only the first word of the selection. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Or triple-click to select the paragraph, then Shift-Left-Left to
deselect the paragraph mark and the question mark. (Or control-click to select the sentence, then Shift-Left to deselect the question mark.) On Apr 28, 10:59*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The behavior of Shift+F3 depends on the text selected. I am painfully aware that if the selection contains sentence-ending punctuation, you get "Sentence case" instead of "Title Case" (or Capitalize Each Word). I ran into this (again) when trying to reformat a document in which heading paragraphs were all in the form of a question; because of the question mark, I got sentence case instead of the desired title case and had to go through Format | Change Case each time. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:29:01 -0700, Typing lazy Typing wrote: Someone showed me last week how to do this by highlighting the word and using some keystrokes, but I forgot what they were. *I thought it was with Format Painter, but I do not seem to be working it correctly. *Any pointers? No, it isn't Format Painter -- not even close. The Change Case command has a shortcut, Shift+F3. Three presses of it cycle through the variations of all caps, all lower case, and capitalize each word. In Word 2003 and earlier, the Change Case command is on the Format menu. In Word 2007 and 2010, there's a button for it in the Font group of the Home ribbon. If you use the menu/button, there's an additional choice, sentence case, that capitalizes only the first word of the selection. |
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How to turn capital letters into lower case without retyping thew
Or triple-click to select the paragraph, then Shift-Left-Left to
deselect the paragraph mark and the question mark. (Or control-click to select the sentence, then Shift-Left to deselect the question mark.) On Apr 28, 10:59*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The behavior of Shift+F3 depends on the text selected. I am painfully aware that if the selection contains sentence-ending punctuation, you get "Sentence case" instead of "Title Case" (or Capitalize Each Word). I ran into this (again) when trying to reformat a document in which heading paragraphs were all in the form of a question; because of the question mark, I got sentence case instead of the desired title case and had to go through Format | Change Case each time. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:29:01 -0700, Typing lazy Typing wrote: Someone showed me last week how to do this by highlighting the word and using some keystrokes, but I forgot what they were. *I thought it was with Format Painter, but I do not seem to be working it correctly. *Any pointers? No, it isn't Format Painter -- not even close. The Change Case command has a shortcut, Shift+F3. Three presses of it cycle through the variations of all caps, all lower case, and capitalize each word. In Word 2003 and earlier, the Change Case command is on the Format menu. In Word 2007 and 2010, there's a button for it in the Font group of the Home ribbon. If you use the menu/button, there's an additional choice, sentence case, that capitalizes only the first word of the selection. |
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Thanks all at first. However, not all mentioned works fine at word 2000.
Try this case "sentence case" w/ question mark, ctrl-click selected the whole sentence, then shift-left click doesn't work, that means deselect question mark failed. Does anyone can have a try? (Better still attempt on w07, w10) Thanks, guys "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Or triple-click to select the paragraph, then Shift-Left-Left to deselect the paragraph mark and the question mark. (Or control-click to select the sentence, then Shift-Left to deselect the question mark.) On Apr 28, 10:59 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The behavior of Shift+F3 depends on the text selected. I am painfully aware that if the selection contains sentence-ending punctuation, you get "Sentence case" instead of "Title Case" (or Capitalize Each Word). I ran into this (again) when trying to reformat a document in which heading paragraphs were all in the form of a question; because of the question mark, I got sentence case instead of the desired title case and had to go through Format | Change Case each time. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:29:01 -0700, Typing lazy Typing wrote: Someone showed me last week how to do this by highlighting the word and using some keystrokes, but I forgot what they were. I thought it was with Format Painter, but I do not seem to be working it correctly. Any pointers? No, it isn't Format Painter -- not even close. The Change Case command has a shortcut, Shift+F3. Three presses of it cycle through the variations of all caps, all lower case, and capitalize each word. In Word 2003 and earlier, the Change Case command is on the Format menu. In Word 2007 and 2010, there's a button for it in the Font group of the Home ribbon. If you use the menu/button, there's an additional choice, sentence case, that capitalizes only the first word of the selection. . |
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Thanks all at first. However, not all mentioned works fine at word 2000.
Try this case "sentence case" w/ question mark, ctrl-click selected the whole sentence, then shift-left click doesn't work, that means deselect question mark failed. Does anyone can have a try? (Better still attempt on w07, w10) Thanks, guys "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Or triple-click to select the paragraph, then Shift-Left-Left to deselect the paragraph mark and the question mark. (Or control-click to select the sentence, then Shift-Left to deselect the question mark.) On Apr 28, 10:59 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The behavior of Shift+F3 depends on the text selected. I am painfully aware that if the selection contains sentence-ending punctuation, you get "Sentence case" instead of "Title Case" (or Capitalize Each Word). I ran into this (again) when trying to reformat a document in which heading paragraphs were all in the form of a question; because of the question mark, I got sentence case instead of the desired title case and had to go through Format | Change Case each time. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:29:01 -0700, Typing lazy Typing wrote: Someone showed me last week how to do this by highlighting the word and using some keystrokes, but I forgot what they were. I thought it was with Format Painter, but I do not seem to be working it correctly. Any pointers? No, it isn't Format Painter -- not even close. The Change Case command has a shortcut, Shift+F3. Three presses of it cycle through the variations of all caps, all lower case, and capitalize each word. In Word 2003 and earlier, the Change Case command is on the Format menu. In Word 2007 and 2010, there's a button for it in the Font group of the Home ribbon. If you use the menu/button, there's an additional choice, sentence case, that capitalizes only the first word of the selection. . |
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HI Suzanne,
Cant we Select the letter, word or sentence or paragraph with or with out punctuation adn simply use SHift +F3 as many times untill u get the desired case - Either ALL caps, Title case or sentence case or lower case. Is nt that correct. THats what i do. If wrong pls let me know. Thanks Yahoo. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The behavior of Shift+F3 depends on the text selected. I am painfully aware that if the selection contains sentence-ending punctuation, you get "Sentence case" instead of "Title Case" (or Capitalize Each Word). I ran into this (again) when trying to reformat a document in which heading paragraphs were all in the form of a question; because of the question mark, I got sentence case instead of the desired title case and had to go through Format | Change Case each time. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:29:01 -0700, Typing lazy Typing wrote: Someone showed me last week how to do this by highlighting the word and using some keystrokes, but I forgot what they were. I thought it was with Format Painter, but I do not seem to be working it correctly. Any pointers? No, it isn't Format Painter -- not even close. The Change Case command has a shortcut, Shift+F3. Three presses of it cycle through the variations of all caps, all lower case, and capitalize each word. In Word 2003 and earlier, the Change Case command is on the Format menu. In Word 2007 and 2010, there's a button for it in the Font group of the Home ribbon. If you use the menu/button, there's an additional choice, sentence case, that capitalizes only the first word of the selection. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. . |
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HI Suzanne,
Cant we Select the letter, word or sentence or paragraph with or with out punctuation adn simply use SHift +F3 as many times untill u get the desired case - Either ALL caps, Title case or sentence case or lower case. Is nt that correct. THats what i do. If wrong pls let me know. Thanks Yahoo. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The behavior of Shift+F3 depends on the text selected. I am painfully aware that if the selection contains sentence-ending punctuation, you get "Sentence case" instead of "Title Case" (or Capitalize Each Word). I ran into this (again) when trying to reformat a document in which heading paragraphs were all in the form of a question; because of the question mark, I got sentence case instead of the desired title case and had to go through Format | Change Case each time. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:29:01 -0700, Typing lazy Typing wrote: Someone showed me last week how to do this by highlighting the word and using some keystrokes, but I forgot what they were. I thought it was with Format Painter, but I do not seem to be working it correctly. Any pointers? No, it isn't Format Painter -- not even close. The Change Case command has a shortcut, Shift+F3. Three presses of it cycle through the variations of all caps, all lower case, and capitalize each word. In Word 2003 and earlier, the Change Case command is on the Format menu. In Word 2007 and 2010, there's a button for it in the Font group of the Home ribbon. If you use the menu/button, there's an additional choice, sentence case, that capitalizes only the first word of the selection. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. . |
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You will probably have to press Shift + Left Arrow twice, as selecting the
sentence (Ctrl + Click) also selects the space after the punctuation. That aside it works in all Word versions. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "miaosidea" wrote in message ... Thanks all at first. However, not all mentioned works fine at word 2000. Try this case "sentence case" w/ question mark, ctrl-click selected the whole sentence, then shift-left click doesn't work, that means deselect question mark failed. Does anyone can have a try? (Better still attempt on w07, w10) Thanks, guys "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Or triple-click to select the paragraph, then Shift-Left-Left to deselect the paragraph mark and the question mark. (Or control-click to select the sentence, then Shift-Left to deselect the question mark.) On Apr 28, 10:59 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The behavior of Shift+F3 depends on the text selected. I am painfully aware that if the selection contains sentence-ending punctuation, you get "Sentence case" instead of "Title Case" (or Capitalize Each Word). I ran into this (again) when trying to reformat a document in which heading paragraphs were all in the form of a question; because of the question mark, I got sentence case instead of the desired title case and had to go through Format | Change Case each time. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:29:01 -0700, Typing lazy Typing wrote: Someone showed me last week how to do this by highlighting the word and using some keystrokes, but I forgot what they were. I thought it was with Format Painter, but I do not seem to be working it correctly. Any pointers? No, it isn't Format Painter -- not even close. The Change Case command has a shortcut, Shift+F3. Three presses of it cycle through the variations of all caps, all lower case, and capitalize each word. In Word 2003 and earlier, the Change Case command is on the Format menu. In Word 2007 and 2010, there's a button for it in the Font group of the Home ribbon. If you use the menu/button, there's an additional choice, sentence case, that capitalizes only the first word of the selection. . |
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You will probably have to press Shift + Left Arrow twice, as selecting the
sentence (Ctrl + Click) also selects the space after the punctuation. That aside it works in all Word versions. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "miaosidea" wrote in message ... Thanks all at first. However, not all mentioned works fine at word 2000. Try this case "sentence case" w/ question mark, ctrl-click selected the whole sentence, then shift-left click doesn't work, that means deselect question mark failed. Does anyone can have a try? (Better still attempt on w07, w10) Thanks, guys "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Or triple-click to select the paragraph, then Shift-Left-Left to deselect the paragraph mark and the question mark. (Or control-click to select the sentence, then Shift-Left to deselect the question mark.) On Apr 28, 10:59 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The behavior of Shift+F3 depends on the text selected. I am painfully aware that if the selection contains sentence-ending punctuation, you get "Sentence case" instead of "Title Case" (or Capitalize Each Word). I ran into this (again) when trying to reformat a document in which heading paragraphs were all in the form of a question; because of the question mark, I got sentence case instead of the desired title case and had to go through Format | Change Case each time. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:29:01 -0700, Typing lazy Typing wrote: Someone showed me last week how to do this by highlighting the word and using some keystrokes, but I forgot what they were. I thought it was with Format Painter, but I do not seem to be working it correctly. Any pointers? No, it isn't Format Painter -- not even close. The Change Case command has a shortcut, Shift+F3. Three presses of it cycle through the variations of all caps, all lower case, and capitalize each word. In Word 2003 and earlier, the Change Case command is on the Format menu. In Word 2007 and 2010, there's a button for it in the Font group of the Home ribbon. If you use the menu/button, there's an additional choice, sentence case, that capitalizes only the first word of the selection. . |
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It won't do Sentence Case (whether from the dropdown menu or by
cycling through Shift-F3) unless the selection ends with a sentence- ending punctuation mark. (Hmm, I wonder what it does in Spanish, where question mark and exclamation point are used at the beginning of a sentence too.) On Apr 29, 2:26*am, Yahoo wrote: HI Suzanne, Cant we Select the letter, word or sentence or paragraph with or with out punctuation adn simply use SHift +F3 as many times untill u get the desired case - Either ALL caps, Title case or sentence case or lower case. Is nt that correct. THats what i do. If wrong pls let me know. Thanks Yahoo. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The behavior of Shift+F3 depends on the text selected. I am painfully aware that if the selection contains sentence-ending punctuation, you get "Sentence case" instead of "Title Case" (or Capitalize Each Word). I ran into this (again) when trying to reformat a document in which heading paragraphs were all in the form of a question; because of the question mark, I got sentence case instead of the desired title case and had to go through Format | Change Case each time. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Jay Freedman" wrote in message .. . On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:29:01 -0700, Typing lazy Typing wrote: Someone showed me last week how to do this by highlighting the word and using some keystrokes, but I forgot what they were. *I thought it was with Format Painter, but I do not seem to be working it correctly. *Any pointers? No, it isn't Format Painter -- not even close. The Change Case command has a shortcut, Shift+F3. Three presses of it cycle through the variations of all caps, all lower case, and capitalize each word. In Word 2003 and earlier, the Change Case command is on the Format menu. In Word 2007 and 2010, there's a button for it in the Font group of the Home ribbon. If you use the menu/button, there's an additional choice, sentence case, that capitalizes only the first word of the selection. |
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It won't do Sentence Case (whether from the dropdown menu or by
cycling through Shift-F3) unless the selection ends with a sentence- ending punctuation mark. (Hmm, I wonder what it does in Spanish, where question mark and exclamation point are used at the beginning of a sentence too.) On Apr 29, 2:26*am, Yahoo wrote: HI Suzanne, Cant we Select the letter, word or sentence or paragraph with or with out punctuation adn simply use SHift +F3 as many times untill u get the desired case - Either ALL caps, Title case or sentence case or lower case. Is nt that correct. THats what i do. If wrong pls let me know. Thanks Yahoo. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The behavior of Shift+F3 depends on the text selected. I am painfully aware that if the selection contains sentence-ending punctuation, you get "Sentence case" instead of "Title Case" (or Capitalize Each Word). I ran into this (again) when trying to reformat a document in which heading paragraphs were all in the form of a question; because of the question mark, I got sentence case instead of the desired title case and had to go through Format | Change Case each time. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Jay Freedman" wrote in message .. . On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:29:01 -0700, Typing lazy Typing wrote: Someone showed me last week how to do this by highlighting the word and using some keystrokes, but I forgot what they were. *I thought it was with Format Painter, but I do not seem to be working it correctly. *Any pointers? No, it isn't Format Painter -- not even close. The Change Case command has a shortcut, Shift+F3. Three presses of it cycle through the variations of all caps, all lower case, and capitalize each word. In Word 2003 and earlier, the Change Case command is on the Format menu. In Word 2007 and 2010, there's a button for it in the Font group of the Home ribbon. If you use the menu/button, there's an additional choice, sentence case, that capitalizes only the first word of the selection. |
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