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I want to convert lower case text to uppercase text in Microsoft Word.

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In Microsoft Office 2007 you can use the Change Case button on the Home tab.

Change case button

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Or press Shift+F3. – Joey Feb 24 '10 at 0:51
@Johannes Rössel Shift+F3 is a nice quick way to cycle through the casing options. – Nick Josevski Feb 24 '10 at 1:37
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Hold Shift when typing?

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And it even works on websites... – sblair Feb 23 '10 at 23:51
To the downvoter, this answer was written before the edit was done. Look at the revision history and get a sense of humor :) – MDMarra Feb 24 '10 at 15:30
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When you've had caps lock on by mistake, highlight the words you typed and press Shift+F3. Pressing Shift+F3 repeatedly swaps between upper case, title case and lower case.

eg. if you type:

tHIS IS A TEST.

... then select all the text and press Shift+F3:

This IS A TEST.

... then press Shift+F3 again:

THIS IS A TEST.

... and Shift+F3 again:

this is a test.

... and Shift+F3 one last time:

This is a test.

It's interesting that the behaviour is a little different if there is no full stop (period character) in the selected text. Shift+F3 then capitalizes every word when switching to title case:

This Is A Test

Hope this helps.

Matthew

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As for the funny difference with the trailing dot: when applying styles in Word, Word is also aware of what is selected. Things like bold and italic are preserved if less than 50% of the text is formatted in bold or italic. If 50% or more uses that formatting, then applying a new paragraph style removes that character formatting on the fly... (Nice answer; welcome at Super User!) – Arjan Feb 24 '10 at 13:09
Pressing Shift+F3 toggles between capitalizing all the letters in the selected text and capitalizing only the first letter of each word. This happens whether the sentence ends in a full stop/period or not. [At least this is what I experienced when I tried it myself.] – Isxek Feb 24 '10 at 13:38
Arjan, that's a funny thing about bold or italic, I hadn't noticed that! Thanks for your warm welcome, I've only been here a couple days so far. – Matthew Eyles Feb 25 '10 at 11:30
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