You can change the capitalization, or case, of selected text in a document by clicking a single button on the Home tab called Change Case.
Change case
To change the case of selected text in a document, do the following:
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Select the text for which you want to change the case.
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Go to Home > Change case
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Do one of the following:
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To capitalize the first letter of a sentence and leave all other letters as lowercase, click Sentence case.
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To exclude capital letters from your text, click lowercase.
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To capitalize all of the letters, click UPPERCASE.
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To capitalize the first letter of each word and leave the other letters lowercase, click Capitalize Each Word.
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To shift between two case views (for example, to shift between Capitalize Each Word and the opposite, cAPITALIZE eACH wORD), click tOGGLE cASE.
Tips:
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To apply small capital (Small Caps) to your text, select the text, and then on the Home tab, in the Font group, click the arrow in the lower-right corner. In the Font dialog box, under Effects, select the Small Caps check box.
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To undo the case change, press CTRL+ Z.
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To use a keyboard shortcut to change between lowercase, UPPERCASE, and Capitalize Each Word, select the text and press SHIFT + F3 until the case you want is applied.
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.See also
Insert a drop cap
Choose AutoCorrect options for capitalization
Change case
To change the case of selected text in a document, do the following:
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Select the text for which you want to change the case.
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Go to Home > Change case
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Do one of the following:
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To capitalize the first letter of a sentence and leave all other letters as lowercase, click Sentence case.
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To exclude capital letters from your text, click lowercase.
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To capitalize all of the letters, click UPPERCASE.
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To capitalize the first letter of each word and leave the other letters lowercase, click Capitalize Each Word.
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To shift between two case views (for example, to shift between Capitalize Each Word and the opposite, cAPITALIZE eACH wORD), click tOGGLE cASE.
Tips:
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To apply small capital (Small Caps) to your text, select the text, and then on the Format menu, select Font, and in the Font dialog box, under Effects, select the Small Caps box.
Small Caps shortcut key: ⌘ + SHIFT + K
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To undo the case change, press ⌘ + Z .
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To use a keyboard shortcut to change between lowercase, UPPERCASE, and Capitalize Each Word, select the text and then press fn+ SHIFT + F3 until the style you want is applied.
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See also
Insert a drop cap
Choose AutoCorrect options for capitalization
PowerPoint for the web supports changing case. See the procedure below.
Word for the web doesn’t support changing case. Use the desktop application to open the document and change text case there, or else you can manually change the casing of text in Word for the web.
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Select the text you want to change.
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Go to Home > More Font Options > Change case.
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Choose the case you want to use.
Updated: 12/30/2021 by
In Microsoft Word, you can use the keyboard shortcut Shift+F3 to change selected text between uppercase, lowercase, and title case.
Selecting a case
- Highlight all the text you want to change. If you want to change the case for the whole document you can use the Ctrl+A keyboard shortcut to select everything.
- Hold down Shift and press F3.
- When you hold Shift and press F3, the text toggles from sentence case (first letter uppercase and the rest lowercase), to all uppercase (all capital letters), and then all lowercase.
Note
If you are using a laptop or an Apple Mac, the function keys may not be enabled without the use of the Fn key. You may need to hold Fn, in addition to Shift, when you press F3.
If you’re not able to get Shift+F3 to work in Microsoft Word 2007 or later, you can try the following option instead.
- In the menu bar, on the Home tab, click the Change Case icon, which has an uppercase ‘A’ and lowercase ‘a.’
- Select the appropriate option from the list of values. For example, if you want to change to all uppercase letters, select the UPPERCASE option. If you want to change to all lowercase letters, select the lowercase option.
Tip
Use our text tool to convert any text from uppercase to lowercase.
Did you know you didn’t need to rely on our title capitalization tool if you use Microsoft Word? Microsoft Word has some basic title capitalization tools that you can use in a pinch if your text is in all caps or has generally messed-up capitalization.
Converting case is really simple in Microsoft Word. If you go to the ribbon option under “Home” for “Change Case” (also found with shortcut ALT+H+7) you’ll find the following options:
- Sentence case: Only the first letter of each sentence is capitalized in sentence case.
- lowercase: Self-explanatory, but this option lowercases all of the letters.
- UPPERCASE: Also self-explanatory, but all the letters are uppercased.
- Capitalize Each Word: This style is also known as title case or First Letter and is the most common capitalization method for titles and headlines.
- tOGGLE cASE: This style will reverse the case of every letter in the selected text. For example, “tHIs IS PoORLy CAPitaLIZED” will change to “ThiS is pOorlY capITAlized”.
To actually capitalize words using these options, you just select the text you want the rules to apply to and then select case you want to convert to from the menu (or use the shortcut).
Convert Case in Microsoft PowerPoint
PowerPoint has the same capitalization options as Microsoft Word located under the ribbon option “Home” and then “Change Case” (also found with shortcut ALT+H+7). This will make sure all your slide headers use the same capitalization rules.
Change Case in Microsoft Excel
Excel is different from the above two Microsoft products because it is a spreadsheet tool based mostly on formulas and data. However, there are formulas built into Excel that allow for some basic title capitalization.
Converting text to uppercase in Excel
Excel has a built-in formula for converting text to uppercase. It’s simply called “UPPER”.
=UPPER(text)
The formula works by converting a string (or cell reference) between the parentheses to uppercase. You can see how this formula is used in the following screenshot:
Converting text to lowercase in Excel
Excel has a built-in formula for converting text to lowercase. It’s simply called “LOWER”.
=LOWER(text)
The formula works by converting a string (or cell reference) between the parentheses to lowercase. You can see how this formula is used in the following screenshot:
Converting text to title case in Excel
Excel has a built-in formula for converting text to title case. It’s simply called “PROPER”.
=PROPER(text)
The formula works by converting a string (or cell reference) between the parentheses to title case. You can see how this formula is used in the following screenshot:
Conclusion
Overall, Microsoft Office has some great tools for capitalizing titles and text. While they don’t offer checks against the latest style guides, they work pretty well. Go ahead, try using the built-in Microsoft Office capitalization tools!
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Capitalize My Title is a dynamic title capitalization tool used to make sure your titles or headlines use proper capitalization rules according to various style guides include APA, AP, MLA, and Chicago. It also counts your words and checks for grammar issues.
Знакома ли вам ситуация, когда вы набираете текст в документе, а затем смотрите на экран и понимаете, что забыли отключить CapsLock? Все буквы в тексте получаются заглавными (большими), их приходится удалять, а затем заново набирать.
О том, как решить эту проблему, мы уже писали. Однако, иногда возникает необходимость выполнить кардинально противоположное действие в Ворде — сделать все буквы большими. Именно об этом мы и расскажем ниже.
Урок: Как в Word сделать маленькими большие буквы
1. Выделите текст, который должен быть напечатан большими буквами.
2. В группе “Шрифт”, расположенной во вкладке “Главная”, нажмите кнопку “Регистр”.
3. Выберите необходимый тип регистра. В нашем с вами случае — это “ВСЕ ПРОПИСНЫЕ”.
4. Все буквы в выделенном фрагменте текста изменятся на заглавные.
Сделать заглавными буквы в Ворде можно и с помощью использования горячих клавиш.
Урок: Горячие клавиши в Word
1. Выделите текст или фрагмент текста, который должен быть написан прописными буквами.
2. Нажмите дважды “SHIFT+F3”.
3. Все маленькие буквы станут большими.
Вот так просто можно в Ворде сделать прописные буквы из маленьких. Желаем вам успехов в дальнейшем изучении функций и возможностей этой программы.
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You can stop manually changing your text if you want to adjust the capitalization. We’ll show you how to easily change letter case in Word.
If you want to change the capitalization of a word, sentence, or paragraph, you don’t have to do this manually in Microsoft Word. You can easily adjust the text to all uppercase or lowercase, sentence case or toggle case, or capitalize the first letter of each word.
While not difficult to do, changing the capitalization or letter case in one fell swoop may be one of those Microsoft Word features you didn’t know existed. So here, we’ll show you how to do this in Word on your computer, the web, and your mobile device.
Change Capitalization and Letter Case on Your Desktop
On both Windows and Mac, you can make your text changes the same way.
- Open your document in Word and select the text you want to edit. You can do this easily by dragging your cursor through it, whether a word, phrase or more.
- Next, go to the Home tab and click the Change Case button in the Font section of the ribbon. The icon for the button is an uppercase and lowercase letter A (Aa).
- Select the capitalization option or letter case you’d like to use from the drop-down list. Each option shows its appearance as its name.
If you choose Uppercase and want to use a smaller version of the capital letters, right-click the selected text and choose Font. On the Font tab of the pop-up window, check the box for Small Caps and click OK.
Capitalization and Letter Case in Word for the Web
You have the same options for adjusting capitalization or letter case in Word for the web.
- Open your document in Word online and select the text you want to edit by dragging your cursor through it.
- Go to the Home tab and click More Font Options (three dots) in the ribbon.
- Move your cursor to Change Case and make your selection in the pop-out menu.
Capitalization and Letter Case in the Word Mobile App
If you use Microsoft Word on your mobile device, you’ll be glad to know you can also change the capitalization or letter case in the app.
- Open your document in the Word mobile app and select the text. You can do this by tapping a word to highlight it and, if necessary, dragging the handles to include all the text you want to change.
- Tap the three dots on the right of the toolbar above the keyboard.
- When the menu opens at the bottom, be sure Home is selected. Then tap More Formatting.
- Choose Change Case and then select the capitalization or letter case option.
Make Text Changes Easy in Microsoft Word
Little-known features like this one to change the capitalization or letter case in just a couple of clicks or taps can be a huge time-saver. You can eliminate manual typing and reduce the risk of errors when changing your text simultaneously.
For more, take a look at how to add a drop cap in Microsoft Word and how to adjust the font-kerning in a Word document.
