Shortcut to change case of text within Word
Contributed by winslow 
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.
This works with all versions of Microsoft Word including the Mac versions.
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Shaun said on October 30, 2008
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 said on November 25, 2008
Class…. saved me about 3 hours and my boss thinks I am great! lol
James said on November 28, 2008
wow perfect! hahahah. been looking for this for a long time.
Damsel in this-dress said on March 17, 2009
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 said on April 29, 2009
Great tip!!
L.Prasad said on June 19, 2009
very good sugg. if possible n number of short cut key pl send mail
Anonymous said on July 29, 2009
You are a rockstar. Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper helpful.
uniso said on August 1, 2009
Very useful.
Thanx.
sandeep said on August 25, 2009
really its very useful information for us
Anonymous said on September 14, 2009
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!
Anonymous said on September 15, 2009
cturtleal doesn’t know what he is talking about
Anonymous said on September 26, 2009
thanks
Anonymous said on September 28, 2009
sorry, but that would be the NON-knowledgebase dumber then dumb dumbass that knows NOTTA f’n thing!
Anonymous said on January 29, 2010
Very Good Knowledge, i know the option but not the shortcut
Name said on March 3, 2010
Thanks.
steve said on May 22, 2010
Shazam! I have big fingers that hit caps lock all the time Great!
Kumarjoy75 said on June 11, 2010
This is ultimate, truly amazing :)
Furi said on June 19, 2010
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREAT!
Jan said on July 18, 2010
help! shift-f3 does not work with my laptop OSX Version 10.4.11.
Suggestions please
esakkiappan.s said on August 7, 2010
i got answer from you . Thanks
Torontoron said on August 23, 2010
be sure to highlight the text you want to change.
Lori said on September 27, 2010
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Ever since swtiching from an older version of Office to the 2010 version, there are certain pull-down menu features that I can’t find and this was one of them. The Shift-F3 worked perfectly and saved me time!!
Norm Penick said on October 19, 2010
On HP laptops it’s fn+shift+F3. I nearly went nuts before I figured out the fn key part. Thanks for the tip!
Itsinthebank57 said on October 22, 2010
I would like the same ? answered someone else put. It does not work with Works word processor. Do you know how to do so in that program?
Syd Salmon said on November 1, 2010
Works for me. Thanks!
Mo8mml said on November 1, 2010
Thanks heaps for the hotkey info!
Aa said on November 16, 2010
ahhhh, u saved a ton. have been looking for this since long time. thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Folasoboyejo said on November 30, 2010
Excellent Thanks a million for Shift – F3
Further inquiry:While everything is in lower case, is there a way or keystrokes to retain or recreate in Caps first letters after fullstops
Krishna Kumar said on November 30, 2010
Excellent share. Though this is a small fact, but still lot of ppl dunno. Thanks.
Shwethavb said on December 15, 2010
Thank U…
happybunny said on December 15, 2010
SHIFT – F3
shift f -3
suuuuuuuupppeerrrr > saved me nearly throwing myu laptop through the window through frustration!! im a happy bunny
Nikunj rai said on January 13, 2011
is there any universal command to change the case in any document.
Syd Salmon said on January 13, 2011
@Nikunj rai If you’re on Mac, you can use the services menu or keyboard shortcuts via services.
Rambhat said on January 18, 2011
On mac you may have to Press additionally “fn” button
(because you enabled FN button on system pref !
Bala said on February 18, 2011
Fantastic. Works fine (Shift+F3). Thanks.
Adhavan said on March 1, 2011
control+shift+u=upper case.
control+u=lower case.
this is winxp too
Robin Chang said on March 4, 2011
Personal insults about intelligence aside, I have actually tested Shift-F3 in MS Word 2003, and it has actually switched text between different forms of capitalisation as suggested by the OP.
Are you sure you pressed the correct key combination, cturtle?
Robin Chang said on March 4, 2011
A real lifesaver. Thanks for sharing, mate :)
Priya said on March 31, 2011
great….
time saving
Reuel said on April 1, 2011
This is great piece of missing info. Many thanks.
dANNY TOY said on April 7, 2011
hOW ABOUT IN OUTLOOK 2010? THIS DEOSN’T SEEM TO WORK.
2010user said on April 14, 2011
works great in outlook 2010
Ankit_singhvi88 said on April 16, 2011
Hi thanks so much for this for sure many people like me will benefit from this. GOD BLESS YOU
Samuel Kanyiri said on May 3, 2011
It WORKS men thanks…
david said on May 26, 2011
i have microsoft works word processor and shift f3 dont work, help pls
Sires9094 said on June 29, 2011
My question was how to change ALL CAPS to Title Case but what I got was ALL CAPS to lower case.
Syd Salmon said on June 29, 2011
Are you on OS X or Windows?
Mohilrocking said on July 15, 2011
thanx for this awesome tip
Jkjhjhjhkj said on July 29, 2011
Wow…….. !! that’s very useful………… Thanks a lot :)
apaj said on September 7, 2011
To resolve the switching to different forms of uppercase only, I unchecked the check box “Small caps” in the font window.
para said on November 13, 2011
Awesome time saving tip. Thank you.
Ashley said on November 28, 2011
Thank you soooooo much, great buddy! It is a great tip with such an excellent easy-to-understand explanation!
Marsha said on January 14, 2012
Wonderful, but does this put codes into the document? Will these changes be lost if the file is saved as plain text? I saved as plain text while converting to XML and all my case changes were lost. Help! And thanks.
ankita said on January 15, 2012
thanks a lottttttt!!!!!!!!!!