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.
I want to convert lower case text to uppercase text in Microsoft Word.
fretje
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Wern AnchetaWern Ancheta
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In Microsoft Office 2007 you can use the Change Case button on the Home tab.
If that is not what you are looking for you will need to add more details to your question.
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answered Feb 23, 2010 at 23:43
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When you’ve had caps lock on by mistake, highlight the words you typed and press Shift+F3. Pressing Shift+F3 repeatedly swaps between upper case, title case and lower case.
eg. if you type:
tHIS IS A TEST.
… then select all the text and press Shift+F3:
This IS A TEST.
… then press Shift+F3 again:
THIS IS A TEST.
… and Shift+F3 again:
this is a test.
… and Shift+F3 one last time:
This is a test.
It’s interesting that the behaviour is a little different if there is no full stop (period character) in the selected text. Shift+F3 then capitalizes every word when switching to title case:
This Is A Test
Hope this helps.
Matthew
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Hold Shift when typing?
answered Feb 23, 2010 at 23:46
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Shift+F3 does not work for some strings, like
95ad861b134e39cbd7ecd6c9070a58f4
If you highlight that then hit Shift+F3, nothing happens. You have to either use the Change Case button as shown above or add an extra word, like
95ad861b134e39cbd7ecd6c9070a58f4 test
Then Shift+F3 will cycle through the capitalization options.
If you have a few minutes, write «3D» into Word, highlight it, then hit Shift+F3 a few times. Why do you think this feature was implemented in this manner?
answered Apr 4, 2013 at 14:43
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If you highlight that then hit Shift+F3, nothing happens. You have to either use the Change
Case button as shown above or add an extra word, like
Ctrl + Shift + A
answered Sep 30, 2014 at 7:41
Quickly convert text to uppercase
Updated on December 19, 2020
When you’re working on a Microsoft Word document and have a string of lowercase text that should be in uppercase, don’t retype it. Instead, use the Word Change Case tool to change some or all of the text to a different case, such as all caps.
Instructions in this article apply to Word for Microsoft 365, Word 2019, Word 2016, Word 2013, and Word 2010.
Microsoft Word Uppercase Shortcut Key
The fastest way to change text to all caps is to highlight the text and press the keyboard shortcut Shift+F3.
Press Ctrl+A to highlight all the text on the page.
You may need to press the shortcut combination a few times because the text in the document might be in another case such as sentence case or all lowercase.
On Word for Mac, select the text you want to change to uppercase, then press ⌘+SHIFT+K.
Change to Uppercase Using the Ribbon
Another way to change the text case is to go to the Home tab on the ribbon.
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Select the text you want to change to uppercase, then go to the Home tab.
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In the Font group, select the Change Case drop-down arrow.
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Choose UPPERCASE to change the selected text to all uppercase letters.
Word Online doesn’t have a shortcut that changes the case of the selected text. Either edit the text manually or open the document in the desktop version of Word to change the case.
Word offers other ways to change the text case:
- Sentence Case: Capitalize the first letter of each selected sentence and change the remaining text to lower case.
- lowercase: Change the selected text to lowercase.
- Capitalize Each Word: Change the first letter of each selected word to uppercase format.
- tOGGLE cASE: Change the first letter of every word to lowercase and the remaining letters to uppercase.
Any time you change the case format of text in Word, use the Ctrl+Z shortcut to undo it.
Don’t Have Microsoft Word?
Though it’s simple to do this in Microsoft Word, you don’t have to use Word to change the text to all caps. There are online services that perform the same function. For example, go to the Convert Case website or Capitalize My Title website and paste the text into the text field and choose from a variety of cases. Select from uppercase, lowercase, sentence case, capitalized case, alternating case, title case, and inverse case. After the conversion, copy the text and paste it where you need it.
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Change to Uppercase or Lowercase In Microsoft Office Word Documents, MS Word 2003, MS Word 2007 and MS Word 2010.
If you have a Word document, and want to change the contents of that document to use uppercase character (capital) in all of them or all with lowercase, or just the first character using uppercase of each word.
It’s very easy :
Highlight / Select the Sentences you want to change its character to uppercase / lowercase, then press The Shift + F3 key
It has 3 combinations (press Shift+F3 repeatedly)
• All lowercase
• All Uppercase
• Only first character from each word
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