SAU19 Knowledge Base - Change the Capitalization or Case of a Text

You can change the capitalization, or case, of selected text in a document by quickly, without having to retype the text. To do this, please follow these directions:

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

2. Click on the Home tab and then select the Change Case icon (

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.
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.