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All,

I have a word template that wont turn off from caps.
In the formatting it isn't set to all caps. Is there anywhere else that can
be set?
This is driving me nuts.

thanks

Martin
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What do you mean by "in the formatting"? Templates don't have
formatting, only the styles in them. Is the style of the empty
paragraph you see when you start a New document (most likely Normal)
set to All Caps?

If it is, you'll see capitals almost everywhere, because most styles
are "based on" Normal.

Just Modify the Normal (or whichever) style to put it back to, well,
normal. (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-S, select Normal (or whichever), right-click,
choose Modify, Format Font)

On Feb 18, 9:53*am, MartinStorey
wrote:
All,

I have a word template that wont turn off from caps.
In the formatting it isn't set to all caps. Is there anywhere else that can
be set?
This is driving me nuts.

thanks

Martin


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Default Word template wont turn off of all caps

What do you mean by "in the formatting"? Templates don't have
formatting, only the styles in them. Is the style of the empty
paragraph you see when you start a New document (most likely Normal)
set to All Caps?

If it is, you'll see capitals almost everywhere, because most styles
are "based on" Normal.

Just Modify the Normal (or whichever) style to put it back to, well,
normal. (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-S, select Normal (or whichever), right-click,
choose Modify, Format Font)

On Feb 18, 9:53*am, MartinStorey
wrote:
All,

I have a word template that wont turn off from caps.
In the formatting it isn't set to all caps. Is there anywhere else that can
be set?
This is driving me nuts.

thanks

Martin


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Not entirely sure what you mean.
When I open word there is a button on the toolbar that says TCH LETTER. When
I click this it opens a load of input boxes. I type in each box and then it
loads the letter template with various bits fillled in. Now one of these
lines is in caps but when I go to see if it is in all caps it isn't and also
when I click on the line and type in manually it doesn't appear in caps.

Any ideas?


"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:

What do you mean by "in the formatting"? Templates don't have
formatting, only the styles in them. Is the style of the empty
paragraph you see when you start a New document (most likely Normal)
set to All Caps?

If it is, you'll see capitals almost everywhere, because most styles
are "based on" Normal.

Just Modify the Normal (or whichever) style to put it back to, well,
normal. (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-S, select Normal (or whichever), right-click,
choose Modify, Format Font)

On Feb 18, 9:53 am, MartinStorey
wrote:
All,

I have a word template that wont turn off from caps.
In the formatting it isn't set to all caps. Is there anywhere else that can
be set?
This is driving me nuts.

thanks

Martin


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Not entirely sure what you mean.
When I open word there is a button on the toolbar that says TCH LETTER. When
I click this it opens a load of input boxes. I type in each box and then it
loads the letter template with various bits fillled in. Now one of these
lines is in caps but when I go to see if it is in all caps it isn't and also
when I click on the line and type in manually it doesn't appear in caps.

Any ideas?


"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:

What do you mean by "in the formatting"? Templates don't have
formatting, only the styles in them. Is the style of the empty
paragraph you see when you start a New document (most likely Normal)
set to All Caps?

If it is, you'll see capitals almost everywhere, because most styles
are "based on" Normal.

Just Modify the Normal (or whichever) style to put it back to, well,
normal. (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-S, select Normal (or whichever), right-click,
choose Modify, Format Font)

On Feb 18, 9:53 am, MartinStorey
wrote:
All,

I have a word template that wont turn off from caps.
In the formatting it isn't set to all caps. Is there anywhere else that can
be set?
This is driving me nuts.

thanks

Martin


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Martin, that template has one or more macros that display the boxes and then
put your information into the letter. There are two possibilities -- either
of which should be fixed by whoever is responsible for creating and
maintaining the template.

One possibility is that the information is placed into "fields" (that's a
technical term) in the letter, and that one field may have a "formatting
switch" that makes it display caps. Right-click somewhere in that text --
does the popup menu include the choice "Toggle Field Codes"? If it's there,
click it. Now you'll see a pair of bold curly braces with some code inside.
If the code includes
\* Upper
remove that part of the code, then right-click again and choose Update
Field. If that works, then the template needs to be changed the same way.
(See http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm for more about this.)

If there isn't a field there, or if there is a field but it doesn't contain
a formatting switch, then probably the macro is capitalizing the text before
it inserts the result in the letter. I'm not going to attempt to tell you
how to fix that; take it back to where you got the template and complain.

--
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.

Martin wrote:
Not entirely sure what you mean.
When I open word there is a button on the toolbar that says TCH
LETTER. When I click this it opens a load of input boxes. I type in
each box and then it loads the letter template with various bits
fillled in. Now one of these lines is in caps but when I go to see if
it is in all caps it isn't and also when I click on the line and type
in manually it doesn't appear in caps.

Any ideas?


"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:

What do you mean by "in the formatting"? Templates don't have
formatting, only the styles in them. Is the style of the empty
paragraph you see when you start a New document (most likely Normal)
set to All Caps?

If it is, you'll see capitals almost everywhere, because most styles
are "based on" Normal.

Just Modify the Normal (or whichever) style to put it back to, well,
normal. (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-S, select Normal (or whichever), right-click,
choose Modify, Format Font)

On Feb 18, 9:53 am, MartinStorey
wrote:
All,

I have a word template that wont turn off from caps.
In the formatting it isn't set to all caps. Is there anywhere else
that can be set?
This is driving me nuts.

thanks

Martin


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Martin, that template has one or more macros that display the boxes and then
put your information into the letter. There are two possibilities -- either
of which should be fixed by whoever is responsible for creating and
maintaining the template.

One possibility is that the information is placed into "fields" (that's a
technical term) in the letter, and that one field may have a "formatting
switch" that makes it display caps. Right-click somewhere in that text --
does the popup menu include the choice "Toggle Field Codes"? If it's there,
click it. Now you'll see a pair of bold curly braces with some code inside.
If the code includes
\* Upper
remove that part of the code, then right-click again and choose Update
Field. If that works, then the template needs to be changed the same way.
(See http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm for more about this.)

If there isn't a field there, or if there is a field but it doesn't contain
a formatting switch, then probably the macro is capitalizing the text before
it inserts the result in the letter. I'm not going to attempt to tell you
how to fix that; take it back to where you got the template and complain.

--
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.

Martin wrote:
Not entirely sure what you mean.
When I open word there is a button on the toolbar that says TCH
LETTER. When I click this it opens a load of input boxes. I type in
each box and then it loads the letter template with various bits
fillled in. Now one of these lines is in caps but when I go to see if
it is in all caps it isn't and also when I click on the line and type
in manually it doesn't appear in caps.

Any ideas?


"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:

What do you mean by "in the formatting"? Templates don't have
formatting, only the styles in them. Is the style of the empty
paragraph you see when you start a New document (most likely Normal)
set to All Caps?

If it is, you'll see capitals almost everywhere, because most styles
are "based on" Normal.

Just Modify the Normal (or whichever) style to put it back to, well,
normal. (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-S, select Normal (or whichever), right-click,
choose Modify, Format Font)

On Feb 18, 9:53 am, MartinStorey
wrote:
All,

I have a word template that wont turn off from caps.
In the formatting it isn't set to all caps. Is there anywhere else
that can be set?
This is driving me nuts.

thanks

Martin


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Jay,

Manyt thanks for your reply.
It helped a lot.

Although the part one didn't seem to work.
I even went into the script editor and couldn't see too much in there or it
might have been in there and I didn't save it properly.

Is there something I can look at about 'then probably the macro is
capitalizing the text before it inserts the result in the letter' ?

Many thanks

Martin


"Jay Freedman" wrote:

Martin, that template has one or more macros that display the boxes and then
put your information into the letter. There are two possibilities -- either
of which should be fixed by whoever is responsible for creating and
maintaining the template.

One possibility is that the information is placed into "fields" (that's a
technical term) in the letter, and that one field may have a "formatting
switch" that makes it display caps. Right-click somewhere in that text --
does the popup menu include the choice "Toggle Field Codes"? If it's there,
click it. Now you'll see a pair of bold curly braces with some code inside.
If the code includes
\* Upper
remove that part of the code, then right-click again and choose Update
Field. If that works, then the template needs to be changed the same way.
(See http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm for more about this.)

If there isn't a field there, or if there is a field but it doesn't contain
a formatting switch, then probably the macro is capitalizing the text before
it inserts the result in the letter. I'm not going to attempt to tell you
how to fix that; take it back to where you got the template and complain.

--
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.

Martin wrote:
Not entirely sure what you mean.
When I open word there is a button on the toolbar that says TCH
LETTER. When I click this it opens a load of input boxes. I type in
each box and then it loads the letter template with various bits
fillled in. Now one of these lines is in caps but when I go to see if
it is in all caps it isn't and also when I click on the line and type
in manually it doesn't appear in caps.

Any ideas?


"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:

What do you mean by "in the formatting"? Templates don't have
formatting, only the styles in them. Is the style of the empty
paragraph you see when you start a New document (most likely Normal)
set to All Caps?

If it is, you'll see capitals almost everywhere, because most styles
are "based on" Normal.

Just Modify the Normal (or whichever) style to put it back to, well,
normal. (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-S, select Normal (or whichever), right-click,
choose Modify, Format Font)

On Feb 18, 9:53 am, MartinStorey
wrote:
All,

I have a word template that wont turn off from caps.
In the formatting it isn't set to all caps. Is there anywhere else
that can be set?
This is driving me nuts.

thanks

Martin

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Jay,

Manyt thanks for your reply.
It helped a lot.

Although the part one didn't seem to work.
I even went into the script editor and couldn't see too much in there or it
might have been in there and I didn't save it properly.

Is there something I can look at about 'then probably the macro is
capitalizing the text before it inserts the result in the letter' ?

Many thanks

Martin


"Jay Freedman" wrote:

Martin, that template has one or more macros that display the boxes and then
put your information into the letter. There are two possibilities -- either
of which should be fixed by whoever is responsible for creating and
maintaining the template.

One possibility is that the information is placed into "fields" (that's a
technical term) in the letter, and that one field may have a "formatting
switch" that makes it display caps. Right-click somewhere in that text --
does the popup menu include the choice "Toggle Field Codes"? If it's there,
click it. Now you'll see a pair of bold curly braces with some code inside.
If the code includes
\* Upper
remove that part of the code, then right-click again and choose Update
Field. If that works, then the template needs to be changed the same way.
(See http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm for more about this.)

If there isn't a field there, or if there is a field but it doesn't contain
a formatting switch, then probably the macro is capitalizing the text before
it inserts the result in the letter. I'm not going to attempt to tell you
how to fix that; take it back to where you got the template and complain.

--
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.

Martin wrote:
Not entirely sure what you mean.
When I open word there is a button on the toolbar that says TCH
LETTER. When I click this it opens a load of input boxes. I type in
each box and then it loads the letter template with various bits
fillled in. Now one of these lines is in caps but when I go to see if
it is in all caps it isn't and also when I click on the line and type
in manually it doesn't appear in caps.

Any ideas?


"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:

What do you mean by "in the formatting"? Templates don't have
formatting, only the styles in them. Is the style of the empty
paragraph you see when you start a New document (most likely Normal)
set to All Caps?

If it is, you'll see capitals almost everywhere, because most styles
are "based on" Normal.

Just Modify the Normal (or whichever) style to put it back to, well,
normal. (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-S, select Normal (or whichever), right-click,
choose Modify, Format Font)

On Feb 18, 9:53 am, MartinStorey
wrote:
All,

I have a word template that wont turn off from caps.
In the formatting it isn't set to all caps. Is there anywhere else
that can be set?
This is driving me nuts.

thanks

Martin

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The "script editor" is the wrong place. It isn't the same as the macro
editor. Look at http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm for instructions
on opening the editor.

But.... WARNING!! If you don't know what you're looking at, you stand a
good chance of breaking it completely. Don't just poke around! If you know
who created the template and the macros, take it back to them to fix it. If
you don't have access to that person, find someone with experience in
creating and modifying macros. This is NOT a good place to learn on the job.

Martin wrote:
Jay,

Manyt thanks for your reply.
It helped a lot.

Although the part one didn't seem to work.
I even went into the script editor and couldn't see too much in there
or it might have been in there and I didn't save it properly.

Is there something I can look at about 'then probably the macro is
capitalizing the text before it inserts the result in the letter' ?

Many thanks

Martin


"Jay Freedman" wrote:

Martin, that template has one or more macros that display the boxes
and then put your information into the letter. There are two
possibilities -- either of which should be fixed by whoever is
responsible for creating and maintaining the template.

One possibility is that the information is placed into "fields"
(that's a technical term) in the letter, and that one field may have
a "formatting switch" that makes it display caps. Right-click
somewhere in that text -- does the popup menu include the choice
"Toggle Field Codes"? If it's there, click it. Now you'll see a pair
of bold curly braces with some code inside. If the code includes
\* Upper
remove that part of the code, then right-click again and choose
Update Field. If that works, then the template needs to be changed
the same way. (See http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm
for more about this.)

If there isn't a field there, or if there is a field but it doesn't
contain a formatting switch, then probably the macro is capitalizing
the text before it inserts the result in the letter. I'm not going
to attempt to tell you how to fix that; take it back to where you
got the template and complain.

--
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.

Martin wrote:
Not entirely sure what you mean.
When I open word there is a button on the toolbar that says TCH
LETTER. When I click this it opens a load of input boxes. I type in
each box and then it loads the letter template with various bits
fillled in. Now one of these lines is in caps but when I go to see
if it is in all caps it isn't and also when I click on the line and
type in manually it doesn't appear in caps.

Any ideas?


"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:

What do you mean by "in the formatting"? Templates don't have
formatting, only the styles in them. Is the style of the empty
paragraph you see when you start a New document (most likely
Normal) set to All Caps?

If it is, you'll see capitals almost everywhere, because most
styles are "based on" Normal.

Just Modify the Normal (or whichever) style to put it back to,
well, normal. (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-S, select Normal (or whichever),
right-click, choose Modify, Format Font)

On Feb 18, 9:53 am, MartinStorey
wrote:
All,

I have a word template that wont turn off from caps.
In the formatting it isn't set to all caps. Is there anywhere else
that can be set?
This is driving me nuts.

thanks

Martin

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The "script editor" is the wrong place. It isn't the same as the macro
editor. Look at http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm for instructions
on opening the editor.

But.... WARNING!! If you don't know what you're looking at, you stand a
good chance of breaking it completely. Don't just poke around! If you know
who created the template and the macros, take it back to them to fix it. If
you don't have access to that person, find someone with experience in
creating and modifying macros. This is NOT a good place to learn on the job.

Martin wrote:
Jay,

Manyt thanks for your reply.
It helped a lot.

Although the part one didn't seem to work.
I even went into the script editor and couldn't see too much in there
or it might have been in there and I didn't save it properly.

Is there something I can look at about 'then probably the macro is
capitalizing the text before it inserts the result in the letter' ?

Many thanks

Martin


"Jay Freedman" wrote:

Martin, that template has one or more macros that display the boxes
and then put your information into the letter. There are two
possibilities -- either of which should be fixed by whoever is
responsible for creating and maintaining the template.

One possibility is that the information is placed into "fields"
(that's a technical term) in the letter, and that one field may have
a "formatting switch" that makes it display caps. Right-click
somewhere in that text -- does the popup menu include the choice
"Toggle Field Codes"? If it's there, click it. Now you'll see a pair
of bold curly braces with some code inside. If the code includes
\* Upper
remove that part of the code, then right-click again and choose
Update Field. If that works, then the template needs to be changed
the same way. (See http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm
for more about this.)

If there isn't a field there, or if there is a field but it doesn't
contain a formatting switch, then probably the macro is capitalizing
the text before it inserts the result in the letter. I'm not going
to attempt to tell you how to fix that; take it back to where you
got the template and complain.

--
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.

Martin wrote:
Not entirely sure what you mean.
When I open word there is a button on the toolbar that says TCH
LETTER. When I click this it opens a load of input boxes. I type in
each box and then it loads the letter template with various bits
fillled in. Now one of these lines is in caps but when I go to see
if it is in all caps it isn't and also when I click on the line and
type in manually it doesn't appear in caps.

Any ideas?


"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:

What do you mean by "in the formatting"? Templates don't have
formatting, only the styles in them. Is the style of the empty
paragraph you see when you start a New document (most likely
Normal) set to All Caps?

If it is, you'll see capitals almost everywhere, because most
styles are "based on" Normal.

Just Modify the Normal (or whichever) style to put it back to,
well, normal. (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-S, select Normal (or whichever),
right-click, choose Modify, Format Font)

On Feb 18, 9:53 am, MartinStorey
wrote:
All,

I have a word template that wont turn off from caps.
In the formatting it isn't set to all caps. Is there anywhere else
that can be set?
This is driving me nuts.

thanks

Martin

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