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.
Bugalugs
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 5:03 PMConsider me in the ecstatic group…
Cheers!
Simon Hatfield
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 6:50 PMMe too!
Brian Ho
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 7:21 PMThanks :)
Mike
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 11:46 PMYou 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 Ortner
Friday, February 25, 2011 at 4:14 AMThe all caps feature to which you refer applies a formatting code. The Shift+F3 shortcut changes the physical text in the document.
Graeme
Friday, February 25, 2011 at 1:01 PMThanks for that. I was shown this trick years ago and have been trying unsuccessfully to remember it since then!
Adebayo semiu
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 4:21 PMNice one..
N
Friday, January 6, 2012 at 12:56 PMawesome! THANK YOU!!