Shortcut to change case of text within Word

Contributor Icon Contributed by winslow Date Icon October 6, 2003  
Tag Icon Tagged: Microsoft Word

Keystroke command to quick change the case of words with a Word document.


Very few things are as painful as trying to convert a large text of all-caps text to normal. Heck, it’s almost quicker to retype it. Word versions 1997 and later have a shortcut to make this much quicker.

SHIFT-F3 – changes selected text between title case, upper case, and lower case.

For example:

WILL YOU PLEASE FAX THIS TO BOB

(Shift-F3)

will you please fax this to bob

(Shift-F3)

Will You Please Fax This To Bob

Now, you can appropriately quote that dOOd in the newsgroups that loves to shout IN ALL CAPS.

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  • Smartboy
    It also works in Microsoft Word 97 aswell, I know this because I tried it today. :)
  • davak
    <ul id="quote"><h6>Smartboy wrote:</h6>It also works in Microsoft Word 97 aswell, I know this because I tried it today. :)</ul>

    Greatly appreciate the update. I changed the recipe.
  • Anonymous
    i cant get it to work in microsoft works word processor
  • This is an excellent tip. I've been searching the web for 20 minutes for a solution as I had a whole paragraph of capitalised text to change. Thanks very much!
  • Batman
    Class.... saved me about 3 hours and my boss thinks I am great! lol
  • James
    wow perfect! hahahah. been looking for this for a long time.
  • Damsel in this-dress
    Thank You!
    This saves me the hassle of trying to figure out the combo and wiping my entire document again.
    10 000 000 brownie points!
  • Wingnut
    Great tip!!
  • L.Prasad
    very good sugg. if possible n number of short cut key pl send mail
  • You are a rockstar. Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper helpful.
  • uniso
    Very useful.
    Thanx.
  • sandeep
    really its very useful information for us
  • cturtleal
    WRONG WRONG WRONG! All this (Shift F#) does is make the CAPITALIZATION a different SIZE FONT!! It does NOT change the case in any way shape or form!
  • knowledgebase
    cturtleal doesn't know what he is talking about
  • cturtle
    sorry, but that would be the NON-knowledgebase dumber then dumb dumbass that knows NOTTA f'n thing!
  • laughwithcamera
    thanks
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