Word template wont turn off of all caps

[MartinStorey]

All,

I have a word template that wont turn off from caps.
In the formatting it isn't set to all caps. Is there anywhere else that can
be set?
This is driving me nuts.

thanks

Martin

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

What do you mean by "in the formatting"? Templates don't have
formatting, only the styles in them. Is the style of the empty
paragraph you see when you start a New document (most likely Normal)
set to All Caps?

If it is, you'll see capitals almost everywhere, because most styles
are "based on" Normal.

Just Modify the Normal (or whichever) style to put it back to, well,
normal. (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-S, select Normal (or whichever), right-click,
choose Modify, Format > Font)

 

[Martin]

Not entirely sure what you mean.
When I open word there is a button on the toolbar that says TCH LETTER. When
I click this it opens a load of input boxes. I type in each box and then it
loads the letter template with various bits fillled in. Now one of these
lines is in caps but when I go to see if it is in all caps it isn't and also
when I click on the line and type in manually it doesn't appear in caps.

Any ideas?

 

[Jay Freedman]

Martin, that template has one or more macros that display the boxes and then
put your information into the letter. There are two possibilities -- either
of which should be fixed by whoever is responsible for creating and
maintaining the template.

One possibility is that the information is placed into "fields" (that's a
technical term) in the letter, and that one field may have a "formatting
switch" that makes it display caps. Right-click somewhere in that text --
does the popup menu include the choice "Toggle Field Codes"? If it's there,
click it. Now you'll see a pair of bold curly braces with some code inside.
If the code includes
\* Upper
remove that part of the code, then right-click again and choose Update
Field. If that works, then the template needs to be changed the same way.
(See http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm for more about this.)

If there isn't a field there, or if there is a field but it doesn't contain
a formatting switch, then probably the macro is capitalizing the text before
it inserts the result in the letter. I'm not going to attempt to tell you
how to fix that; take it back to where you got the template and complain.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Martin]

Jay,

Manyt thanks for your reply.
It helped a lot.

Although the part one didn't seem to work.
I even went into the script editor and couldn't see too much in there or it
might have been in there and I didn't save it properly.

Is there something I can look at about 'then probably the macro is
capitalizing the text before it inserts the result in the letter' ?

Many thanks

Martin

 

[Jay Freedman]

The "script editor" is the wrong place. It isn't the same as the macro
editor. Look at http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm for instructions
on opening the editor.

But.... WARNING!! If you don't know what you're looking at, you stand a
good chance of breaking it completely. Don't just poke around! If you know
who created the template and the macros, take it back to them to fix it. If
you don't have access to that person, find someone with experience in
creating and modifying macros. This is NOT a good place to learn on the job.