Lower casing in word

Бывают досадные ситуации: набрали текст в MS Word, но не заметили, что включен «Caps Lock». В результате получилась строка из заглавных букв, которая выглядит нелепо, но, к счастью, ее легко исправить.

Заглавные (прописные) символы отличаются от строчных слегка увеличенным размером при одинаковом шрифте. Ошибочно включенный «Caps Lock» Ворд обычно распознает, автоматически исправляя регистр вводимых букв и отключая «Caps Lock». Но иногда эту замену надо сделать вручную.

Заменяем прописные буквы на строчные в Word 2007/2010/2016

Сменить регистр символов можно несколькими способами. Для этого надо выделить необходимый фрагмент текста или установить курсор на нужном слове и применить любой из нижеописанных способов.

Способ 1: Панель инструментов

1. Кликните по кнопке «Аа», расположенной в секции «Шрифт» на панели инструментов.
2. В появившемся выпадающем списке выберите «все строчные».
3. Кликните по кнопке «ОК».

Способ 2: Горячие клавиши «Shift-F3»

Нажмите несколько раз на комбинацию клавиш «Shift-F3», предварительно выделив необходимый фрагмент текста. После каждого нажатия регистр символов будет меняться, соответствуя одному из состояний:

• как в предложениях;
• все строчные;
• начинать с прописных;
• все прописные;
• изменить регистр.

Заменяем заглавные буквы на строчные в MS Word 2003

Несмотря на то, что Ворд 2003 очень сильно устарел, некоторые пользователи все еще его используют из-за простоты интерфейса или в силу привычки. В главном меню легко ориентироваться, так как все команды лежат, что называется, на поверхности. Среди них легко отыскивается и операция по замене регистра, которую можно выполнить несколькими способами.

Способ 1: Команда Главного меню

1. В главном меню выберите «Формат».
2. В открывшемся подменю выберите «Регистр».
3. В появившемся окне выберите «все прописные».
4. Кликните по кнопке «ОК».

Способ 2: Горячие клавиши «Shift-F3»

Выделив необходимый текст, нажмите «Shift-F3» несколько раз, пока в выбранном фрагменте или слове не станут все символы строчными.

В MS Word можно продуктивно работать, используя даже небольшую часть его возможностей, но в программе реализован большой функционал, позволяющий быстро выполнять не только форматирование. Ворд позволяет легко и быстро решать и множество других задач для работы с текстом, таблицами, рисунками, оглавлением, страницами, сносками, ссылками и так далее. Создание даже очень объемных проектов будет быстрым и комфортным.

Changing text case means changing the selected text from one case to another, such as uppercase, lowercase, capitalize each word, toggle case, and sentence case.

There are 5 common text cases in Word. These are explained step by step below.

1. Change any case to a Sentence case

In this case, the first letter and other proper nouns in a sentence start with the capital letter. We can keep most of our document contents in sentence case for reading, printing, or other purposes. If you want to change the content in this case from other common cases, follow the steps below:

1. Select the text that you want
2. On the Home tab, in the Font group, click on the Change Case icon
3. Then select the “Sentence case”, which is the first option of the drop-down list.

2. Changing text as UPPERCASE:

How to change lowercase to uppercase

Changing all the select text to capital letters called, “Upper Case”. To do this, follow the steps below:

1. Enter and select the text that you want.
2. On the Home tab, in the Font group, click on the Change Case icon
3. Then Select “Uppercase”, which is the third option of the drop-down list.

3. Changing text to lowercase:

How to change uppercase to lowercase

Changing all the selected text to the small letters called, “Lowercase” in Changing Text Case. To do this, follow the steps below:

1. Enter and select text that you want.
2. On the Home tab, in the Font group, click on the Change Case icon to get a drop-down list
3. Then select “Lowercase”, which is the second option of the drop-down list.

4. Changing text as Capitalize Each Word:

Changing the first letter of each word to a capital letter called, “Capitalize Each Word”. To do this, follow the steps below:

1. Enter and select text that you want
2. On the Home tab, in the Font group, click on the Change Case icon
3. Then select “Capitalize Each Word”, which is the fourth option of the drop-down list.

5. Changing text as tOGGLE cASE:

Changing the first letter of each capital word to a small letter called, “tOGGLE cASE”.  To do this, follow the steps below:

1. Enter and select the text that you want
2. On the Home tab, in the Font group, click on the Change Case icon.
3. Then select the “tOGGLE cASE”, which is the fifth option of the drop-down list.

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Change Case options in Word, like many Word features goes beyond the obvious choices from the basic shortcut. There’s up to five choices on the ribbon with a keyboard shortcut to reach it.

Alter the upper/lower case of words, phrases or more.  ‘change case’ can become ‘Change Case’ or ‘CHANGE CASE’ or even “cHANGE cASE” without retyping.

There are four ways to change the case of existing text in Word:

• Keyboard shortcut
• Change Case button on the Ribbon
  • Alt shortcut to reach the ribbon menu.
• The Font dialog box
• Replace text – good when there’s many words or phrases to change.

Keyboard shortcut – Shift + F3

To change text using only the keyboard, highlight the selected text, hold down the Shift key and press F3. This option will toggle around three different case options:

• All uppercase
• All lowercase
• Sentence case (first letter of each sentence is uppercase and the rest lowercase)

Using the ribbon

Another way to change the case of text is to select the text that you want to change and click the Change Case button on the Font group of the Home tab on the Ribbon.

When you click the button, a dropdown menu will appear showing different options for you to choose. There are two more choices here than using Shift + F3.

• Sentence case – The first letter of each sentence in the selected text is capitalized and the rest will be lowercase. Just like these two sentences!
• Lowercase – all text will forced to lowercase.
• Uppercase – all the selected text goes to UPPER case.
• Capitalize each word – the first letter of each word will be uppercase, and the rest lowercase.
• Toggle – reverse the case.  Uppercase letters become lowercase, and all lowercase letters are changed to uppercase.

Alt key sequence for Change Case

The mouse-free to reach the Change Case menu is:

Alt , H, 7 which reaches the Change Case menu list. Press S L U C or T to choose the Change Case option you want.

Using the Font Dialog Box

There are two lesser known change case options hiding under the Home | Font part of the ribbon.

The Font dialog box is under the arrow in the bottom right corner of the Font group of the Home tab on the Ribbon.

We’ve talked about those little icons many times at Office-Watch.com.  Always look for them on the ribbon and click to discover a lot more choices than the basic Office ribbon offerings

There are two options for capitalization on the Font dialog box.

• Small caps – All letters will be capitalized, but letters that were already lowercase will be slightly smaller, as shown below.
• All caps – All letters will be capitalized, the same as if UPPERCASE was selected using the method described above.

These two ‘Caps’ options are different from regular Change Case choices.  They change the look of the letters but don’t change the underlying Upper/lower case of the letters.  Confused?  It’s a bit like strikethough or superscript formatting which changes the appearance in the document, but the underlying letters haven’t changed.

NOTE: Small caps in the Font dialog box can be used in conjunction with the other two methods for changing case. Letters that would be uppercase using the other options will be slightly larger than letters that would be lowercase using the other options.

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Did you type a line of text and then realize that it should have been capitalized differently? Instead of typing the line again, you can quickly and easily change the case of any text in Word without retyping it.

To change the case on text in a Word document, select the text you want to change and make sure the Home tab is active. Then, click the “Change Case” button on the Home tab.

Select the desired type of capitalization from the drop-down menu. The following types of capitalization are available:

• Sentence case: Capitalizes the first letter of the first word in a sentence.
• lowercase: Makes every letter lowercase.
• UPPERCASE: Makes every letter UPPERCASE.
• Capitalize Each Word: Capitalizes the first letter of every word. This is useful for titles or headings.
• tOGGLE cASE: This makes the first letter of every word lowercase and the rest of the letters UPPERCASE.

Toggle Case may seem like a strange option, but it’s useful if you’ve been typing text without realizing the Caps Lock key is on and the autocorrect option for correcting accidental usage of Caps Lock key is not on. You can highlight the affected text and use the tOGGLE cASE option to correct the capitalization.

For our example, we’re going to make the selected text all caps, or UPPERCASE.

The selected text changes to the selected capitalization type.

RELATED: How to Disable Automatic Capitalization Correction in Microsoft Word

If you want to use your keyboard to change the case on some text, select the text and then press Alt+H to activate the Home tab. Then press “7” and then choose an option, such as “S” for Sentence case, “l” (a lowercase L) for lowercase, “U” for UPPERCASE, “C” for Capitalize Each Word, or “t” for tOGGLE cASE.

If you need to change the case of the text in Google Docs or Microsoft Word, you should follow this step by step guide. It is possible to change the text case with and without taking help from third-party add-on in Google Docs. If you are using Microsoft Word, you may not need to use any add-on since Microsoft has included some in-built options to get it done.

Let’s assume that you have written a 100-word paragraph, and now you have to make the first alphabet of each word uppercase. It is very time-consuming work when you have big paragraphs. At such a moment, you can make use of these in-built options to make the change quickly.

Before getting started, you know the formatting.

• Lower case: this is lower case.
• Upper case: THIS IS UPPER CASE.
• Title case: This Is Title Case.
• Sentence case: This is sentence case.
• Toggle case: tHiS iS tOGGLE cASE.

You cannot find the Toggle case in Google Docs, but it is available in Microsoft Word. Also, The Title case of Google Docs is known as Capitalize each word in Microsoft Word.

To change the case of text in Microsoft Word, follow these steps-

1. Open a document
2. Select the text.
3. Expand Change Case menu
4. Select a case.

You need to open a document in Microsoft Word and select the text that you want to change. After that, make sure you are in the Home tab and click the Change Case button to get all options.

Now, you need to choose a case that you want to apply.

How to change the case of text in Google Docs

To change the case of text in Google Docs, follow these steps:

1. Open a document
2. Select the text.
3. Go to Format > Text > Capitalization.
4. Select a case as per your needs.

To get started, you need to open the document in which you want to make the change. After that, select the text that you want to change and go to Format > Text > Capitalization.

Here you can find three options – lower case, UPPER CASE, and Title Case.

Select an option according to your requirements. The text should be changed immediately.

There is an add-on for Google Docs that does the same job. It is called the Change Case. If you want to use this add-on, click the Add-on button and select Get add-ons button. After that, search for “change case” and install it accordingly.

Whenever you need to change the case, select the text in your document, go to Add-ons > Change Case, and select a case that you want to apply.

As it is a third-party add-on, it takes a couple of moments to apply the change. However, it depends on the selected text size.

That’s it! Hope these simple steps will help you to change text case easily.