Software Tips & Tricks Changing Case in Word & PowerPoint: Keyboard Shortcut Method

By Laura Noble

Have you ever typed something in UPPER CASE and afterwards thought "what would it look like in lower case?"

In Word and PowerPoint there are menu commands that will change the case of existing text, but there also is a keyboard shortcut, Shift + F3, that acts as a "toggle switch" between cases making changing case quite fast and easy.

• Select text that requires the case change:
  
  
  
  
• Press Shift + F3 and text will change case.
  
  In the sample above, the selected text changes to UPPER case:
  
  
  
  
• Pressing Shift + F3 again will "toggle" the selected text to lower case:
  
  
  
  
• Pressing Shift + F3 a third time will change the case of the selected text to Proper Case:
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Each time Shift + F3 is pressed the selected text will change case. For more keyboard shortcuts refer to tip To Mouse or Not to Mouse.
  

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Laura Noble is the owner of Noble Software Solutions. Laura can be contacted at 519-680-2689 or by e-mail at lnoble@noblesoftwaresolutions.com. www.noblesoftwaresolutions.com

Published in Networking Today, April 2003.