Ever find yourself constantly trying to change the capitalization of words or sentences? What do you do?
Maybe you highlight the word or phrase and retype it.
Or, perhaps you're the type who only replaces the individual letters that need to be changed. What a headache!
Well, do you know about the Change Case feature under the Format menu?
Or, for those of you with Word 2007, the button on the Home ribbon.
You know, where you get the options of sentence case, all lower case letters, all upper case letters, all title case letters or to toggle all the letters between upper and lower case.What I have for you today are a few shortcuts that can replace the Change Case feature and believe it or not, but they're faster than anything you've ever tried!
Let's start with the most versatile choice.
Once you highlight the text to change, use Shift + F3. With that, you can scroll between sentence case letters, all lower case letters and all upper case letters.
That looks great, but what if you want to use all caps and you don't feel like toggling through your choices?
Is there a quicker way?
Of course there is!
If you know you want your text to be in all caps, simply hit Ctrl + Shift + A.
Plus, as if that weren't enough, there's another option you can try. Yep, you can use small caps, which are all the letters in capital letter formation, but slightly smaller than the usual capital letter.
Ctrl + Shift + K will give you small caps, which is a good "attention getter," without completely shouting at the reader.
That's it. Three keys and you're on the way to the formatting you need!
~ April
