Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!jay From: jay@ut-emx.uucp (Jay Boisseau) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Possible Bug in MS Word 4.0B Keywords: Changing case Message-ID: <42621@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 16 Jan 91 16:19:08 GMT References: <1991Jan16.134832.23438@linus.mitre.org> Organization: The University of Texas at Austin; Austin, Texas Lines: 32 In article <1991Jan16.134832.23438@linus.mitre.org>, dsb@mbunix.mitre.org writes > I want to change the case of a section of text. I type in some text > (lowercase). Then I hit shift (ALL CAPS). Bang, the text goes to > uppercase. Shift again the text is back as lowercase. > > Now type some text as uppercase. Shift . Nothing. > > What is going on ? Is there something I am missing ? > > Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to offer. > -Scott When you type the text as lower case, you are entering different characters than when you type in the corresponding uppercase letters (think of it terms of ascii codes, if that helps). The character format 'uppercase' does not change the characters codes, it merely changes the way they appear on the screen, just as the other character formats change the appearance (bold, italics, etc.). Therefore, if you type in upercase case letters to begin with, you can still apply the character format 'uppercase'... only the change in appear- ance will not be a change (changing uppercase letters to look like uppercase clearly won't do anything). When you remove that style, you DO remove the character formatting 'uppercase', and your original characters remain... which were uppercase, in your example. The key is to think of the format 'uppercase' just as you would 'bold'. If you remove the format, your original characters remain (upper- or lowercase). Jay Boisseau jay@emx.utexas.edu