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I just found out a great little tip on changing ALL CAPS to no caps.
Example:
You prepared a long list or wrote an entire paragraph with the caps lock button ON (lazy!) and now, you need it changed.
MIKE
JOHN
APRIL
SOPHIE
BILL
…now you want it to read like this
mike
john
april
sophie
bill
If it’s not already in MS Word, copy and paste the text to Word and then hit shift+F3. Voila!
If you hit shift+F3 yet again, it will put Initial Caps on each word (first letter of each word is capitalized):
Mike
John
April
Sophie
Bill
Thanks to Lockergnome for the tip!
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Great tip! I am in office all day and several times this happens to me. I usually catch it before it gets to bad but sometimes I would type a lot in all caps and would get frustrated when I could not figure out how to change them. This will help me so much, I am also going to try using them in the other office programs. Thanks!
You just saved me hours of re-typing a database of projects that was in all caps…I just did a google search thinking that it *should* be possible and lo and behold…i found your blog.
THANK YOU!!! Saved me from ingesting a bottle of Tylenol…
Thank you very much it worked like a charm!!! tested in word 2007.
THIS IS AWESOME. (irony intended)
Seriously, though, I had never heard of this shortcut before, but even in Word for the Mac it works as advertised. You have saved me untold hours of un-caps locking colleague's comments!!
this is brilliant! You just saved my day!
thanks for the tip!! this helped me a lot!
Brilliant!!!
i was just sent 2 pages of text all in caps… couldnt find how to change it in 07… this was fantastic to learn. thanks
Thanks for the timely help….good that the listing of the site is among the top results on google….good SEM…keep it up..
You have no idea how long I spent searching for the button that would do this. I right clicked and double clicked everything on the MS doc. At first I pressed ctrl F3 which deleted everything and temporarily freaked out, but ctrl Z brought it back and I realized my mistake.
Thanks for the help!
Great tip I am about to use it right now for my school work!
Thats really helpful, thanks!
Also you can combine it with Ctrl + F or H Find/Replace. I wrote notes on some literature giving the character names as letters. Othello = O Iago = I. Then replace > I > whole word only> replace with > Iago, but it put it in Caps. Then use Find > highlight all words found > Iago to highlight all of the names and click back into the document and Shift + F3. Result!
Brilliant. If you cycle it again. All caps comes back.
+1 on the lifesaver! Thanks! -GT