Mac Microsoft Word All Caps

User Microsoft word to convert text from All Caps to sentence case.

The use of text case in PowerPoint presentations mixes a bit of art with a bit of science. Most people do not like all-caps text because it reminds them of shouting by email, but the limited and strategic use of all-caps headers can set text apart on a slide. If you were multitasking while typing, it is completely possible you typed several sentences in all caps! I’m so good at typing now that I don’t even look at the screen a lot of times when I know exactly what I need to type. Rather than retyping the all-caps text, Word has a built-in option to fix the problem.

Good news, everyone! You’ve got an email from your Uncle Tobias. The bad news is that he seems to be ticked off about something because IT APPEARS FROM THE WAY THAT HIS EMAIL IS WRITTEN THAT HE IS SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF HIS LUNGS ABOUT THAT COMPUTER ISSUE HE WANTS YOU TO LOOK INTO. Uncle Tobias is a good guy (he taught you how to tie a fishing lure, after all), so you should probably help him out, but holy cripes, it’s going to give you a migraine to read through his seven-page email in all caps. No worries—you can translate it from Baby-Boomer-who-can’t-figure-out-the-caps-lock-key to regular people text in seconds. Here’s how:

Step 1

Copy and paste the offending email, Craigslist ad or manifesto into Microsoft Word 2010.

Step 2

In the Font panel, Click the Change Case button.

Step 3

Choose Sentence Case.

Step 4

Breathe a sigh of relief.

yOU CAN ALSO TRY tOGGLE cASE TO SWITCH ALL UPPER CASE LETTERS TO LOWER CASE LETTERS AND VICE VERSA. tHIS IS HANDY FOR THE PERSON WHO TYPES AN ENTIRE EMAIL WITH CORRECT CAPITALIZATION BUT NEVER LOOKS AT THE SCREEN TO NOTICE THAT CAPS LOCK IS ON.

There are also options to switch to all lowercase, ALL UPPERCASE or to Capitalize Each Word.

In Microsoft Word, you can use the keyboard shortcut Shift+F3 to change selected text between upper case, lower case, and title case.

  1. Highlight all the text you want to change.
  2. Hold down the Shift key and press F3.
  3. 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.

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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 the Fn key, in addition to the Shift key, when you press F3.

If you're not able to get the Shift+F3 shortcut to work in Microsoft Word 2007 or later, you can try the following option instead.

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  1. In the menu bar, on the Home tab, click the Change Case icon, which has an uppercase 'A' and lowercase 'a.'

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  1. 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.

Additional information

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  • See the uppercase and lowercase definitions for further information and related links.
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