Anyone know a quick way to change CAPS text into lowercase?

[Guest]

Hello,

I'm cutting and pasting a lot of text into Word 2000, some of which is all
in CAPS. Is there a quick way to convert this into lowercase ?

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Select the text and choose Format - Change Case. (You can make this easier
to use if you assign a keystroke to it.)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The built-in keyboard shortcut Shift+F3 will cycle through three of Word's
five case options, including two of the four that aren't currently applied.
In this case you'll get lowercase first, then Sentence case if the text
includes periods or Title Case if it doesn't, then UPPERCASE again. You'll
get tOGGLE cASE only if you've been typing "backwards" with CapsLock on.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Herb - you've just saved me hours of work - I can't thank you enough.

Cheers
Joe

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

In the long run, I've found it faster to assign the menu version to a
keystroke. I hate having to press Shift+F3 several times to cycle through to
what I want--and sometimes discovering that what I want isn't one of the
things Word offers. So, I have the menu version assigned to Ctrl+Shift+C
(easier for me to remember, since I've been using that keystroke through
four different word processors for the last 20 years or so).

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I don't need it very often, so I just access it through the menu. Nothing
wrong with a keyboard shortcut, but I'd sure hate to give up the built-in
assignment of Ctrl+Shift+C to copy formatting.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

I guess we all use Word differently. I might copy formatting once every
couple of years, and use the Format Painter to do it. More often than not,
if formatting is worth copying, then it's worth creating a style (for me,
anyway), and I go that route.

In my case Ctrl+Shift+C was assigned to Change Case years before I even knew
there was a Copy Formatting command. Just as my Ctrl+C got assigned to
Toggle Case, since I'd never dream of using it for Copy (that's what
Ctrl+Insert is for).

I pity any "default settings" user of Word who might try to use my setup.
;-)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

For years I was convinced that Ctrl+Shift+C was "broken" on my computer or
in my copy of Word. After getting a new computer, I realized it had been
assigned (by me or another program, I forget which) to some other action.
There are times when Ctrl+Shift+C is invaluable (and much more useful than
the Format Painter because the copied format remains available indefinitely,
i.e., until replaced by another), and it applies styles along with the
formatting.

One example is when you have a decimal tab set in a table cell just right,
and Word is being bloody-minded about letting you set the tab in the same
place in the whole column (don't ask me why, but every now and then Word
just digs in its heels and won't let you do this), then you can copy and
paste the formatting of the correctly formatted cell.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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