It’s been a long-standing feature but apparently many people don’t realise: if you’ve got a block of text in Word that’s all caps, you can use Shift-F3 to cycle between all caps, all lowercase and all initial caps.You can also access caps-changing features using the Change Case button on the ribbon in Word 2007 and Word 2010, but the Shift-F3 version works at least as far back as Word 95. I mentioned this in passing in response to a Gizmodo query the other day and got a frankly ecstatic response, so I figure it’s worth sharing with anyone who hasn’t already encountered it.
Use Shift-F3 To Remove All Caps In Word
Comments
11 responses to “Use Shift-F3 To Remove All Caps In Word”
-
-
Clint BurhansLikewise–a pet peeve that I do a lot (bumping the all caps key and then not looking up for three lines–sloppy typist!) Anyone knows if it works in e-mails? I suppose it depends on the browser–we tend to use Mozilla.
Thanks!!!
-
-
-
-
MikeYou can also do CTRL-Shift-A to toggle All-Caps on and off. At least you used to be able to, but I haven’t got Word 2007/2010.
-
Peter OrtnerThe all caps feature to which you refer applies a formatting code. The Shift+F3 shortcut changes the physical text in the document.
-
-
GraemeThanks for that. I was shown this trick years ago and have been trying unsuccessfully to remember it since then!
-
-
-
P. HeinickeI love this one. But it doesn’t work in some docs. Any idea why this might be so?
-
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.