How can I tell when Caps Lock is on?

[InformationJunkie]

How can you tell when the Caps Lock button is on? I do not see any
indication of this when I press it and then press it again to deactivate. I
am a new user to Windows XP.

 

[Neil]

Umm, look at your keyboard see if the light is on or not?

 

[Greg Maxey]

Some keyboards don't have a lighted indication. I have a wireless keyboard
and the CAP Lock indicatore is displayed momentarily on the monitor when
CAPS Lock is toggled. Unfortunately there is no permanent display.

 

[Tony Jollans]

My wireless keyboard doesn't have any indication either which I do find
slightly irritating. I also don't run the keyboard software so don't even
get the momentary indication on toggling.

Excel does give an indication on the status bar but nothing I know in Word
does the same - except the appearance of a lot of upper case letters!

 

[Neil]

Well, then you could umm, lets see. Just type one letter and see -OR- pop off
the caps lock key and never use it and just use the shift key -OR- you could
make a post it note and everytime you turn it on make a line, then when you
turn it off scratch out the line, attatch this to the keyboard -OR- just type
everything in lower-case and just have spell check fix it.

Hope that helps.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

An earlier version of Word (all the way back to Word 2.0, I think) did have
CAPS in the status bar. Until I researched this a while back, I would have
sworn that it had been present in Word much later, but evidently I had been
misled by seeing it in Excel.