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From: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson)
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Subject: Re: From CAPS to lower case in Word
Message-ID: <2717@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 13 Nov 90 22:47:09 GMT
References: <291dahla@yoda.byu.edu> <1990Nov13.192333.11999@midway.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson)
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In article <1990Nov13.192333.11999@midway.uchicago.edu> wjb1@quads.uchicago.edu (William J. Buikema) writes:
|In article <291dahla@yoda.byu.edu> dahla@yoda.byu.edu writes:
|>My wife has ... boss that wants all of the
|>text in lower case letters instead of having it all in UPPER CASE like he used
|>to want it.  Is there any possiblity of changing all of the chars to lower
|>case? She can then replace the first letter of each sentence with a
|>cap.
|
|I've always wondered how to do this in Word.  I can find no mention of it in
|the manual, only going from lowercase to uppercase.  However, it seems that
|command-shift-K will simply toggle the case of the selection.  This works for
|going to uppercase or to lowercase.  Learn something every day...

Bzzzt.

Command-shift-K is the keyboard shortcut for toggling the "All Caps" text style
in Word.  It doesn't globally toggle case, and only works one way.

For example, say I start with this line:

"This is a line of text in Word; it contains 13 words and 2 numerals."

If I select this line and hit Cmd-Shift-K, I get:

"THIS IS A LINE OF TEXT IN WORD; IT CONTAINS 13 WORDS AND 2 NUMERALS."

Just as if I had typed it with the Caps Lock key down.

Now, if I leave it selected and hit Cmd-Shift-K again, I am back to:

"This is a line of text in Word; it contains 13 words and 2 numerals."

Now, if I type the same line of text, with the Caps Lock key down, I get:

"THIS IS A LINE OF TEXT IN WORD; IT CONTAINS 13 WORDS AND 2 NUMERALS."

According to Bill's post, selecting this line and hitting Cmd-Shift-K should
give us:

"This is a line of text in Word; it contains 13 words and 2 numerals."

However, it in fact has no effect, since Word is applying the All Caps style
to a line of text that is already in All Caps.  It is not toggling the case.

chaz
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