Text to lowercase

[Alain Dekker]

Hi,

If you highlight some text in a Word document, and choose "Format" from the
Edity menu, you can change the text to uppercase, but not all lowercase. Is
it possible to force all selected text to lowercase? I'm using Office 2000.

Thanks,
Alain

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACT]

Hi Alain,

If you select Change Case from the Format menu, there is a lower case button
that you can check. Doing so will change the selected text to lower case.

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[JulieD]

Shift + F3 is the short cut / function key alternative to Format / Change
Case and goes through a cycle of the different cases



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[Alain Dekker]

Ahh, I missed the "Change case" option. Thank you both. Thanks also for the
shortcut key combo.

Regards,
Alain

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACT]

Hi Julie,

Shift+F3 only gives you UPPER CASE, lower case and Title Case. It does not
give you Sentence case.

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[JulieD]

Hi Doug

not wishing to argue with a MVP - however, if you select a whole paragraph
(or sentance - as long as you include the last period/fullstop) Shift + F3
gives you UPPER, lower and Sentance case as opposed to UPPER, lower and
Title Case.

Cheers
JulieD



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[Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACT]

Hi Julie,

Learn something everyday. Only thing is, then you cannot get Title Case
using Shift+F3.

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[JulieD]

Hi Doug

you can if you don't select the period/fullstop

i use this feature extensively so i'm pretty good at selecting the bits i
need to get the outcome i need and rarely do i need title case for more
than a couple of words.

BTW i think in 2000 you could get all 4 no matter what you selected ... but
i can't double check that at the moment.

Cheers
JulieD

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[Beth Melton]

Well isn't that interesting!

I never realized that was the key. Of course it makes perfect sense
now. Thanks for sharing.

Also, the behavior is the same in all versions of Word that support
the keyboard command.
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I had gotten the general impression that it was context-sensitive but hadn't
taken the trouble to figure it out. I use the command so seldom that I
usually end up just going to Format | Change Case, where I can choose
exactly what I want (and sometimes even that doesn't work, I found, if you
have multiple cases already selected).

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[sf]

Hi Doug

not wishing to argue with a MVP - however, if you select a whole paragraph
(or sentance - as long as you include the last period/fullstop) Shift + F3
gives you UPPER, lower and Sentance case as opposed to UPPER, lower and
Title Case.

I don't have a clue what you're trying to "say" above, but
I think you need to define WHICH shift key you're using to
do it.

When I used the LEFT shift key and F3, all text turned into
lower case letters, but when I used the RIGHT shift key, all
text turned into capitols.

Fun Trick, but only useful if you've accidentially hit the
"shift" key and written a block of capitalized text.

<s>



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[Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACT]

Doesn't matter which shift key. Each time you press F3 with the shift key
held down, the text changes to the next format in the cycle. Do it 3 times
and you will be back where you started.

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[sf]

Doesn't matter which shift key. Each time you press F3 with the shift key
held down, the text changes to the next format in the cycle. Do it 3 times
and you will be back where you started.

AHA! Thanks for clarifying... if the original post had
included that point, this wouldn't have been a discussion.


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[JulieD]

Hi SF

i think you came in mid-conversation as i posted in this thread on the 5 Mar
04
"Shift + F3 is the short cut / function key alternative to Format / Change
Case and goes through a cycle of the different cases"

a discussion followed and i then posted the post you quoted in your last
post as to the elements in the "cycle"

but i'm glad you now understand how it works.

Cheers
JulieD