Changing case and formatting of document

[Dave Leer]

Whenever I type or paste text into certain areas of a document, the text
appears all capitalized.

1. How do I change this setting?

2. How do I designate an area of text and change it from all caps to
lower-case?

Thanks.

 

[Clive Huggan]

Hello Dave,

That's certainly odd behaviour. Before I/we can help, you'll need to
provide details of your OS, Word version, what "certain areas" they are, the
source of the text you're pasting in, and the style of the paragraph into
which you are pasting. Nothing's simple in Word!

In the meantime, Shift-F3 will rotate selected text through the various
cases.

I think Command (i.e. apple key)-Option-c also does the same thing, but
there's a slight possibility that it's a customization I applied a long time
ago (if someone has a pristine set-up and can tell me whether that's among
Mac Word's defaults, that would help). This latter keyboard shortcut is
quicker to apply than Shift-F3.

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

1) See the Microsoft Word Help item "Format text as all capital or all
small capital letters"

2) See the Help item "Change the case of text"

I suggest that you spend an hour or so going learning to find things quickly
in the Help: it really will save you huge amounts of time in the future.
The Help in modern applications has improved dramatically from what we have
been used to: it's no longer trivial rubbish. In Microsoft applications,
the help is now the most extensive and up to date source of information
available anywhere

Cheers.

Whenever I type or paste text into certain areas of a document, the text
appears all capitalized.

1. How do I change this setting?

2. How do I designate an area of text and change it from all caps to
lower-case?

Thanks.

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me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

 

[Elliott Roper]

1) See the Microsoft Word Help item "Format text as all capital or all
small capital letters"

2) See the Help item "Change the case of text"

I suggest that you spend an hour or so going learning to find things quickly
in the Help: it really will save you huge amounts of time in the future.
The Help in modern applications has improved dramatically from what we have
been used to: it's no longer trivial rubbish. In Microsoft applications,
the help is now the most extensive and up to date source of information
available anywhere

tsk I guess you knoew this was coming...

...and the scroll bar in Help still does not work properly.
....and typing return in the search box inserts a return instead of
starting the search like every other search box on the planet.

and don't get me started on the results I got while searching the help
for a toggle toolbar command while answering jcrowley's save-as
question. Banal blithering or what?

I agree that the help is better than it was, but it is still hopeless.
It is not really a compliment to say that it is better than Apple's
help, but it is that.
Modern applications set the help in html and let you fang through it in
your browser. Failing that, a PDF manual with a decent table of
contents is still better than help. I have the 578 page Quickstart
Guide open in Preview.app while I battle with InDesign. it beats the
b'jasus out of help. Preview's search is brilliant, and when you get
there, it's a readable page of a book, not some ghastly text hidden
among circular chains of links.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

...and the scroll bar in Help still does not work properly.

Do you mean work with keyboard shortcuts? Do specify.

...and typing return in the search box inserts a return instead of
starting the search like every other search box on the planet.

Not here. Both the return and enter key start the search. ??

It is not really a compliment to say that it is better than Apple's
help, but it is that.

Oh, do not get me started on the nightmare of Apple's help, which, yes,
makes Word's help look good.

Daiya

 

[Elliott Roper]

Do you mean work with keyboard shortcuts? Do specify.

Err. Mine is more broken than yours. Here, I slide the scroll bar OK
with the rodent, but the text won't move till I let go the mouse,
whereupon it scrolls to god knows where.

Not here. Both the return and enter key start the search. ??

My bad. I tried enter and it worked for the first time in my life. Now
it works for return too. Bewildered. Maybe it was fixed in 2004? I have
never knowingly typed return to a help search since v.X imprinted the
opposite on the nerves in my typing fingers. (all two of them!)

Still, it is not completely fixed. TAB is supposed to march to the next
button/input box according to Apple's HIG. Word Help inserts a tab in
your query string.

Oh, and my favourite. Help is the frontmost window, so you close it by
typing cmd-W. Oops! Where's my document? But not always. The only safe
way is to find your mouse.

Oh, do not get me started on the nightmare of Apple's help, which, yes,
makes Word's help look good.

OS X 10.4.6 was supposed to speed it up. I'll test it when I next have
a stop-watch^h^h^hcalendar

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Err. Mine is more broken than yours. Here, I slide the scroll bar OK
with the rodent, but the text won't move till I let go the mouse,
whereupon it scrolls to god knows where.

No, I was just guessing at what you could be complaining about, as I've
never noticed a problem.

And yes, now that I try dragging the scroll bar, I see what you see. But
moving the mouse over the help window and rolling the scroll wheel (which is
easier anyhow) works great. Ain't it grand?

Oh, and my favourite. Help is the frontmost window, so you close it by
typing cmd-W. Oops! Where's my document? But not always. The only safe
way is to find your mouse.

Drives me mad, also with Apple's palettes. I did put in a complaint about
that one to MS.

Daiya

 

[CyberTaz]

...and the scroll bar in Help still does not work properly.

A major annoyance here as well... I'm there for info, *not* to play 'Let's
Make A Deal'. I've come to rely on a) stretching the window & b) using the
uppydowny buttons at the bottom end of the curse bar because...

doesn't consistently provide the intended effect in far too many scroll
zones. If only the industry would 'standardize' on the 'standards' - at
least within *the same* program [sigh].

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Back atcha...

Modern applications set the help in html and let you fang through it in
your browser.

Yes. I know.... *Microsoft* HTML Help format, to be precise. As is
Microsoft's. Everywhere EXCEPT the Mac, where Apple decided to do its help
in PDF, and Microsoft decided to be good Mac citizens and comply...

I am rather hoping they will blow off this silliness in the next version

Cheers

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Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

 

[Elliott Roper]

Back atcha...

Modern applications set the help in html and let you fang through it in
your browser.

Yes. I know.... *Microsoft* HTML Help format, to be precise. As is
Microsoft's. Everywhere EXCEPT the Mac, where Apple decided to do its help
in PDF, and Microsoft decided to be good Mac citizens and comply...

I am rather hoping they will blow off this silliness in the next version

There's a freeware program I use, called "Tubby", which does a fabulous
job of converting .chm files to ordinary HTML. - making a mini-site
whiich also spotlight indexable. In seconds!
http://mikebultrowicz.com/tubby/
It is way better than the chm viewers available.

I'd claim Mac help was NPDF ;-)