Shourtcut to change text written in upper case to lower case

[becksm]

I often accidentally press the caps button and realise too late that I've
entered a lot of text in upper case, and then have to go back on myself and
re-type the entire thing in lower case.

I'd like there to be a shortcut that can be used, whereby you can highlight
the text that you've entered in upper case, do the shortcut, and it changes
the text to lower case- saving a lot of time when errors are made.

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[Greg Maxey]

Shift F3 will often work or use the built in Change Case command. Format
Menu Word2003 and earlier. Home Tab>Font Group Word2007

 

[Pesach Shelnitz]

Hi,

There already is such a shortcut key. Select your text and press Shift+F3
once or twice until you have the capitalization that you want. Shift+F3
alternates between all uppercase, all lowercase, and first letter of each
word uppercase.

 

[beerwolf]

From your message headers it appears you're posting from Windows.
If Windows is where you do your work, the following small freeware
program called FlipCase might help. It places a small icon in your system
tray; whenever you leftclick on the icon, text in the clipboard has its case
altered in accordance with your preferred configuration options. So you
can just highlight the wrongly-cased text, copy, leftclick on the icon,
then paste.

You can use it no matter what application you're typing in - it need not be
Word.

You can find it at http://adriancarter.homestead.com .

HTH

 

[Stefan Blom]

Note that in Word you can use Shift+F3 repeatedly to change the case.