And MS Word knows that the first letter of any sentence should normally be capitalized (full sentences must start with a leading upper case letter). Notice that Microsoft Word is displaying a wavy green underline under the first word, indicating a grammatical issue: this is because our sentence is now in full lower case, including the first character. The text selection that had been converted to full upper case letters has now been converted to all lower case: With your text still selected, hit Shift+F3 on your keyboard one more time. Next, hit Shift+F3 on your keyboard: in other words, hold down the Shift key, and, while still holding down Shift, hit the F3 key - then release.Īfter the first round, the selected text has now been converted to upper case: Select the portion of the text you would like fully capitalized (entirely converted to uppercase). The rest of this Word 2007 will look in detail at each of the following options: ' Sentence case' (first letter capitalized only, aside from proper names), ' Lowercase', ' Uppercase', ' Capitalize each word' (' Title Case', in other words), and ' Toggle case' (or ' Inverted case'). To access the Change Case menu in Word 2007, click on the Home tab, and locate the section of commands labeled ' Font'.Ĭlick the menu displaying as icon an uppercase letter 'A' followed by a lower case 'a'. The next section will show you how to quickly convert text case with a single keyboard shortcut.

The easiest, but slowest way to convert selected text to uppercase, lowercase, title case or inverted case, is to use the Change Case menu, built into Word 2007. Read on… Use the text case conversion menu in Word 2007's Ribbon Note that Microsoft Word 2007 keyboard shortcut for text case conversion does not include in the case-convert cycle any reference to 'sentence case', where the first letter of the sentence is the only one capitalized, outside proper names: this is not an omission, because Microsoft Word will automatically capitalize the first letter of every sentence for you! And you can always access this commands as well as the Toggle Case (or 'Inverted case') command from the Change Case menu in Word 2007. Change orientation to portrait / landscape.

Automatically change case in word