Thursday, May 24, 2018

Change the capitalization or case of text

Change the capitalization or case of text

You can change the capitalization, or case, of selected text in a document by clicking a single button on the Home tab called Change Case.

Note: For information on automatic capitalization rules, see Choose AutoCorrect options for capitalization, spelling, and symbols.

Change case

To change the case of selected text in a document, do the following:

  1. Select the text for which you want to change the case.

  2. On the Home tab, in the Font group, click Change Case (Aa).

    The Change Case button is highlighted on the Home tab.

  3. Do one of the following:

    • To capitalize the first letter of a sentence and leave all other letters as lowercase, click Sentence case.

    • To exclude capital letters from your text, click lowercase.

    • To capitalize all of the letters, click UPPERCASE.

    • To capitalize the first letter of each word and leave the other letters lowercase, click Capitalize Each Word.

    • To shift between two case views (for example, to shift between Capitalize Each Word and the opposite, cAPITALIZE eACH wORD), click tOGGLE cASE.

    Tips: 

    • To apply small capital (Small Caps) to your text, select the text, and then on the Home tab, in the Font group, click the arrow in the lower-right corner. In the Font dialog box, under Effects, select the Small Caps check box.

    • To undo the case change, press CTRL+ Z, or in Word 2016 for Mac press COMMAND + Z .

    • To use a keyboard shortcut to change between lowercase, UPPERCASE, and Capitalize Each Word, select the text and press SHIFT + F3 until the case you want is applied, or in Word 2016 for Mac select the text, and then press fn+ SHIFT + F3 until the style you want is applied.

    • In Word 2016 for Mac you can also format text in all small capital letters: Select the text, and then press COMMAND + SHIFT + K.

See also

Choose AutoCorrect options for capitalization

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