Text to all caps in word

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.

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.

1. Select the text you want to change.

2. Go to Home > More Font Options > Change case.

   

3. Choose the case you want to use.

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Всем доброго времени суток!

Довольно часто наблюдаю, как многие набирают текст и случайно забывают «отжать» клавишу Caps Lock (реже: Caps Lock + Shift или Shift + F3), и у них все буквы печатаются «ЗАГЛАВНЫМИ» (как у меня сейчас🙂). В результате, потом стирают их, и начинают печатать заново…

Ладно, если текст был небольшим (потеряете пару минут времени — не страшно 👌), а если по ошибке набрали длинный текст не теми буквами?..

В этой статье хочу показать, как можно за пару кликов мышкой (или 1-2 нажатий на клавиатуре) быстро изменить регистр букв (все на заглавные или наоборот). Думаю, что такая, казалось бы, мелочь, не раз и не два пригодится в повседневной работе с текстовой информацией…

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📌 В помощь!

Кстати, также довольно часто меня спрашивают, как можно вставить различные знаки и символы (домик, рука, знак копирайта и пр.) в текст, которых нет на клавиатуре. Рекомендую вот эту статью —>

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Меняем прописные на строчные / и наоборот

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В MS Word

Наверное, самый часто-встречающийся вариант (т.к. многие работают с текстом именно в Word). И так, в качестве примера я взял начало этой статьи и набрал ее заглавным регистром букв (все буквы прописные). Чтобы ничего не перепечатывать заново я просто сделал следующее:

1. выделил текст (в котором нужно поменять буквы);
2. открыл вкладку «Главная», и выбрал значок «Аа» : он позволяет сделать весь выделенный текст прописными или строчными буквами (также есть варианты: как в предложениях, начинать с прописных и пр.).
3. я выбрал вариант «Как в предложениях» — и все буквы у меня стали нормальными, как в обычном тексте, даже ничего корректировать было не нужно!

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Кстати, если у вас на ПК нет Word — можно обойтись его аналогами. Например, бесплатный 👉 LibreOffice Writer позволяет выполнить быстрое изменение регистра с помощью того же сочетания Shift+F3. 👇

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В текстовом блокноте

На некоторых ПК/ноутбуках в силу разных причин нельзя установить Word. Да и сам пакет MS Office весит более 3 ГБ, что с медленным интернетом достаточно долго загружать, в то время как с подобной задачей может справиться маленькая программа-блокнот…

Речь идет о Notepad++.

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И так, установку и запуск программы я опускаю (они стандартны и сложностей не вызывают).

Далее нужно открыть свой текстовый файл (или просто скопировать нужный текст) в блокнот Notepad++. Затем выделите нужную строчку (или даже весь текст).

Далее откройте меню «правка», вкладку «Преобразование регистра»: выберите тот регистр, который вам нужен, например, строчные буквы. Обратите внимание, что в программе предусмотрены «горячие» клавиши:

• Ctrl+U — весь выделенный текст будет преобразован к строчным буквам;
• Alt+U — весь выделенный текст станет написан с заглавных букв;
• Ctrl+Shift+U — все буквы будут прописными и т.д.

В моем примере, я выделенный текст преобразовал к строчному регистру. Показательный скриншот ниже. Быстро, легко, удобно!

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Как обезопасить себя от случайного набора не тех символов

Тут хотелось бы поделиться одной небольшой утилитой — Punto Switcher. Вообще, ее главное назначение — это автоматически менять раскладку клавиатуры (с русского на английский, и с английского на русский) в зависимости от того, какой текст вы печатаете.

НО! Программа следит и за регистром, и, если вы случайно будете печатать заглавными — она легко поправит. К тому же, на «лету» идет корректировка «легких» и самый частых ошибок (где-то пропущенная буква, или 2 заглавных буквы в слове и пр.). В общем, очень рекомендую!

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Простой пример. Допустим, вы печатали-печатали, и у видели, что набрали совсем не то (не в той раскладке) …

После установки утилиты Punto Switcher, достаточно выделить текст и нажать кнопки Shift+Pause — как текст моментально станет русским (см. показательные скриншоты ниже).

В общем-то, к утилите быстро привыкаешь, и потом не представляешь, как набирать текст без ее помощи 😉. Здорово помогает в работе с текстами (экономия времени налицо).

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Это всё, о чем хотел сказать по этой теме…

За дополнения — отдельное мерси!

Успехов!

👋

Первая публикация: 08.01.2018

Корректировка: 11.08.2022

Do you ever wonder how to change the text case after you have typed? By default Office applications like Word uses the sentence case for writing with first letter as capital. However, you can easily change the text case in all Office applications. In this article, we will explain how to do that using builtin option as well as with other tools.

Related: How to insert dividers in Word quickly?

Default Text Case Usage

Word, PowerPoint and Outlook apps will use the backstage AutoFormat and AutoCorrect settings to correct the text cases.

• For example, launch Word and go to “File >
  Options” menu.
• Click on the “AutoCorrect Options…” button under
  the “Proofing” section.
• You can change the options under AutoFormat,
  AutoCorrect and AutoFormat As You Type tabs.

Some of the useful options are to capitalize the first
letter of the sentence and correct accidental usage of capital letters.

Manually Changing Text Cases

The auto correct and auto formatting will not help to convert already written sentences to different cases. Let us say, someone sent you an email with Word attachment containing content with all capital letters. If you are embarrassed to read with capital cases, you can simply convert the content into readable sentences case with few clicks.

Change Text Case in Word

Word has many options for changing text cases compared to
other Office applications.

• Open your document and select the text you want
  to convert the case.
• Under the “Home” tab, click on the “Change Case”
  icon showing as Aa.
• It will show the dropdown and allow you to
  change cases in different manner.

Explanation of Different Text Cases

• Sentence case – this will change the first letter of all sentences to capital and leave other cases in small. This is a default case used in general for writing text content.
• Lowercase – convert all letters to small case letters.
• Uppercase – convert all letters to upper case letters.
• Capitalize each word – only capitalizes the first letter in each word of the selected text.
• Half-width – convert the text width to half, generally not applicable for many of the standard fonts.
• Full-width – convert the text into a full-width font style by justifying the content to full-width.

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Typing with Small Caps and All Caps

In addition to the above text cases, you can also type the
text in small caps or all caps (all uppercase) from the font settings dialog.

• Select the text and press “Control + D”. Alternatively,
  you can click on the small arrow in the “Font” group under “Home” tab.
• This will open Font dialog where you can check “Small
  caps” option and click ‘OK”.
• Now, you can type with small caps.
• Similarly, you can check “All caps” to start
  typing in capital letters. However, you can simply do this by turning on the
  Caps Lock key on your keyboard.

There are few problems in using this method:

• You manually need to disable the check boxes
  again to go back to normal typing mode.
• You cannot convert small caps text into any
  other format.

Example with Different Text Cases

Below is an example of different text cases in Word:  

Keyboard shortcut: You can select the text and press “Shift + F3” to toggle the text case between upper, lower and capitalize each word options.

Change Text Case in Outlook

In outlook, you cannot change the case when reading the emails
as it will be in a read mode. However, you can change the text case in
following ways:

• When creating a new email or calendar entry.
• By replying to the email and change the case.

Go to “Format Text” menu and click on the “Change Case” icon. You will have similar options like Word to change the text.

If you the option is greyed out then click on the HTML or Rich Text option in the beside “Format” group.

Change Text Case in PowerPoint

PowerPoint also has similar option like Word. When you are in the textbox, go to “Home” menu and click on the “Change Case” icon to select the option from the dropdown. However, we do not see half and full-width options in PowerPoint.

Change Text Case in Excel

Excel is completely a different application, as it is not meant for word processing. However, you can use predefined functions to change the text case.

• Proper(text) – converts the text by capitalizing
  each word.
• Upper(text) – converts the text into uppercase.
• Lower(text) – converts the text into lowercase.

You should refer the original cell value in one of the above
functions to convert them accordingly. For example, below is the screenshot
from Excel converting the cell values B2, B3 and B4 to proper, upper and lower
case respectively.

Text case changing also works on Office 365 in Mac as explained above.

Different Language Other than English

Now that you may have one question – what happens when using different language other than English? As far as we have checked, nothing happens, as most of the languages do not have upper and lower cases separately.

Text Case Changer Tool

If you have lot of text content to change the case online then try our free text case changer tool. Simply, copy paste the text and select the option to convert.

The above tool also helps you to count the number of words and characters in a document. It will dynamically count and show the result when you enter text in the input box.

3 Ways to Change or Convert Case in Microsoft Word Documents (with Shortcuts)

by Avantix Learning Team | Updated August 1, 2022

Applies to: Microsoft^® Word^® 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021 or 365 (Windows)

You can change case in Microsoft Word documents by changing character formatting or by converting case. If you want to be able to easily change case (like removing All Caps), it’s best to change case by applying formatting such as All Caps or Small Caps. Alternatively, you use the Change Case command to convert case. This command offers a series of options including upper, lower, capitalize each word and sentence case. You can also use a keyboard shortcut to move through different case options.

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Change Case using the Font dialog box (apply or remove All Caps or Small Caps)

To apply All Caps or Small Caps to text as a format using the Font dialog box:

1. Select the text.
2. Click the Home tab in the Ribbon.
3. Click the dialog box launcher on the bottom right of the Font group. Alternatively, press Ctrl + D. The Font dialog box appears.
4. Select All Caps or Small Caps.
5. Click OK.

The Font dialog box appears as follows:

This is usually the best way to apply All Caps since it’s a format and can be removed using the Font dialog box. You can also build this format into styles.

Change case using the Change Case command in the Ribbon

If text has been formatted with hard capitals where the user has pressed the Caps Lock key when typing text, you can remove or change the capitalization using the Change Case command. You can convert a selection typed in upper case to title case, lower case or even sentence case.

To change case using the Change Case command in the Ribbon:

1. Select the text.
2. Click the Home tab in the Ribbon.
3. Click Change Case in the Font group (Aa). A drop-down menu appears.
4. Select the desired case.

The Change Case drop-down menu appears as follows:

The following options appear in the Change Case drop-down menu:

• Sentence case – capitalizes the first letter of a sentence. If there are multiple sentences, Word will capitalize the next word after a period.
• Lowercase – removes all capitalization.
• UPPERCASE – capitalizes all letters in the selection.
• Capitalize Each Word – capitalizes each word in the selection (often called title case).
• tOGGLE cASE – shifts between two cases. For example, if the first letter of each word in the selection was capitalized, this command would switch to the opposite formatting with the first letter of each word as lower case and the other letters in upper case.

Change case using keyboard shortcuts

You can use keyboard shortcuts to move between several of the options in the Change Case drop-down menu:

1. Select the text.
2. Press Shift + F3. Keep pressing Shift + F3 to move between UPPERCASE, lowercase and Capitalize Each Word.

Some users may need to press the Fn key as well to activate the F3 key.

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Select the text you want to change to uppercase, then go to the Home tab. In the Font group, select the Change Case drop-down arrow. Choose UPPERCASE to change the selected text to all uppercase letters.

How do you make all words in a Word document capital?

Now you can simply choose “Capitalization” from the Format menu in Docs, and select one of the following: lowercase, to make all the letters in your selection lowercase. UPPERCASE, to capitalize all the letters in your selection.

How do you auto capitalize all letters in Word?

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.

How do you capitalize without retyping in Word?

Select the text you want to change the case of, using your mouse or keyboard. On the Home tab of the Ribbon, go to the Fonts command group and click the arrow next to the Change Case button.

Why is shift F3 not working?

Shift F3 Not Working When The “Fn” Key Is Locked
2.Fn + Caps Lock. Fn + Lock Key (A keyboard key with only a lock icon on it) Press and Hold the Fn key to enable/disable.

How do I turn on auto capitalization in Windows 10?

To turn on auto-caps of the first word please follow these steps:

1. Open Settings, and click/tap on Devices.
2. Click/tap on Typing on the left side, and turn On (default) or Off Capitalize the first letter of each sentence under Touch keyboard on the right side for what you want. (

Why are all my i’s capitalized in word?

There are multiple reasons why everything may become capitalized in Microsoft Word: The Caps Lock button on the keyboard is turned on. One of the Shift keys on the keyboard has physically jammed. A font type has been selected that only has upper case letters.

How do you capitalize all letters in word on a Mac?

Switch between uppercase and lowercase in Word on Mac
1) Select the text, whether a single word or entire document. 2) Hold Shift and press F3. You can continue to hold the Shift key and click F3 to move through the uppercase, lowercase, and capital options until you get the one you want.

How do you select all text in word?

Select all text

1. Click anywhere within the document.
2. Press Ctrl+A on your keyboard to select all text in the document.

What is the change case?

A change case is used to define new requirements for a system or to modify the existing requirements of a system. Defining new requirements for a system indicate the likeliness of the change occurring and indicate the impact of that change. Example1: Change case to define new requirement.

What is a toggle case?

Toggle case is used when you want to automatically change the case of the text you have already typed. If you highlight a portion of text it will change all the lower case to uppercase and all lower case to upper case in one click. Just highlight the text and click on toggle case and it will change for you.

What is upper case character?

Uppercase characters are capital letters; lowercase characters are small letters. For example, box is in lowercase while BOX is in uppercase. The term is a vestige of the days when typesetters kept capital letters in a box above the lowercase letters.

What does Alt F4 do in Word?

Alt + F4 is a Windows keyboard shortcut that completely closes the application you’re using. It differs slightly from Ctrl + F4, which closes the current window of the application you’re viewing. Laptop users may need to press the Fn key in addition to Alt + F4 to use this shortcut.

What does the F10 key do?

F10. The F10 key will open the menu bar or similar options within most open Microsoft apps. Hitting Shift + F10 on a highlighted file, link or icon will act in the same way as a right-click.

What does Shift F7 mean?

F7. Commonly used to spell check and grammar check a document in Microsoft programs such as Microsoft Outlook, Word etc. Shift+F7 runs a Thesaurus check on word highlighted. Turns on the Caret Browsing in Mozilla Firefox.

Where is auto capitalization in settings?

Open the messaging app of your choice.

1. On the on-screen keyboard, tap the gear icon.
2. In the Settings menu, select “Text correction.”
3. Swipe up on the Text Correction menu until you locate “Auto-capitalization.”
4. Tap the slider next to “Auto-capitalization” so that it appears gray instead of blue.

How do you capitalize on a computer?

Press and hold either the left or right Shift and while continuing to hold the Shift key press the letter you want caps. Using the Shift key is the most common method of creating a capital letter on a computer.

How do you auto capitalize the letter I?

Or use Word’s keyboard shortcut, Shift + F3 on Windows or fn + Shift + F3 for Mac, to change selected text between lowercase, UPPERCASE or capitalizing each word.

How do you auto correct i to i?

How to use Auto-Correction and predictive text on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

1. Open the Settings app.
2. Tap General > Keyboard.
3. Turn on Auto-Correction. By default, Auto-Correction is on.

Where is F3 on a Mac?

The Function of Each F Key

What is F3 key on Mac?

Mission Control
These are the primary defaults of what function keys do on an Apple keyboard when connected to a Mac: F1 – Decrease display brightness. F2 – Increase display brightness. F3 – Open Mission Control.