How To: Change All Caps To Lowercase (We All Needed It At One Point!)
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Have you ever been worming on something on the computer, only to look up and realize that you accidentally hit to Caps-Lock button? Sometimes if you’re lucky and catch it after only about 2 or 3 words. In a worst case scenario however, you may have already typed 3 for 4, or even more sentences before noticing. Now you have to go back and retype everything right? Wrong! There are some windows applications that have shortcuts to automatically do this. There are also web applications that will convert text as well
In Microsoft Word (I’ve heard Excel can do this too) all you have to do is highlight the words you want to change and hit Shift + F3. This will convert everything to lower case. Hitting it again will capitalize the first letter of the words. For example…
Text:
“AH CRAP, I JUST REALIZED I’VE BEEN TYPING IN CAPS THIS WHOLE TIME. NOW I GOTTA REDO EVERYTHING!”
Shift + F3 once:
“ah crap, i just realized i’ve been typing in caps this whole time. now i gotta redo everything!”
Shift + F3 twice:
“Ah crap, i just realized i’ve been typing in caps this whole time. Now i gotta redo everything!”
It’ll fix most issues, but you probably will have to go and fix little things like “i’ve” and proper names. It won’t do that itself for god knows why.
If you aren’t using Microsoft Word or are on a Mac, there are Web sites that can change the text for you. http://www.convertcase.net/ is a free site that will convert any text into Uppercase, lowercase, or sentence format. Check it out, I’m sure everyone has needed this at one point or another.
8 Comments
Marcus
August 20th, 2008
at 6:27am
You are awesome! Thanks. I’ve been trying to solve that problem for years. Hitting Shift F3 repeatedly changes what you type through three variations.
Rampante
December 28th, 2008
at 11:37pm
Thank you so much!!! You’ve saved me from re-typing 10 pages
lea
April 25th, 2009
at 9:17am
oh my goodness thank you so much!
Dolphin139
May 27th, 2009
at 6:35am
This was exactly what I needed!
Whitney Kaye
June 23rd, 2009
at 7:29pm
If you’re using a mac and are in Microsoft Word you can change the case by pushing Shift+Apple+K.. that will change between lowercase and capitals, although they will be small capitals and not the regular size. If you want the capitals to be larger then select the area you want to change then select Format, Then Change Case. You will be given a whole list of options. Hope i was some help!
mb
August 1st, 2009
at 11:07am
Ugh - your above link to http://www.convertcase.net leads to a hardcore porn site.
Kim
August 5th, 2009
at 5:33am
Thank you so much!
Trafford
August 19th, 2009
at 8:54pm
Everyone said it was ‘impossible’ and that I was faced with keying in 5000 words of a technical document I needed to edit and re-write, which an ‘engineer’ had submitted to me - all in upper case!
Just thought to put the question in Google and up came your brilliant solution straight off the bat. Thanks you so much for saving me about 3 days of aggravation!
Much appreciated.