How To Create Small Caps In Word For Mac



In Microsoft Word, you can use the keyboard shortcut Shift+F3 to change selected text between uppercase, lowercase, and title case.

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Dec 04, 2018 Change Case in Microsoft Word. First, find the text you’d like to change the capitalization of in your Word document and click and drag to select it. With the desired text selected, press the keyboard shortcut Option-Command-C. If you press it once, it will change your selected text to ALL CAPS. Sep 19, 2011 Here’s how the casing text transformation works in the TextEdit app on a Mac: Select all of the UPPERCASE TEXT you’d like to convert in the document, this is easy to do by hitting Command+A to “Select All”. With the text now highlighted, right-click anywhere on the text, and from the pulldown menus navigate to “Transformations” then to “Make Lower Case”.

  1. Highlight all the text you want to change.
  2. Hold down the Shift key and press F3.
  3. When you hold Shift and press F3, the text toggles from sentence case (first letter uppercase and the rest lowercase), to all uppercase (all capital letters), and then all lowercase.
Note

If you are using a laptop or an Apple Mac, the function keys may not be enabled without the use of the Fn key. You may need to hold the Fn key, in addition to the Shift key, when you press F3.

If you're not able to get the Shift+F3 shortcut to work in Microsoft Word 2007 or later, you can try the following option instead.

  1. In the menu bar, on the Home tab, click the Change Case icon, which has an uppercase 'A' and lowercase 'a.'
  1. Select the appropriate option from the list of values. For example, if you want to change to all uppercase letters, select the UPPERCASE option. If you want to change to all lowercase letters, select the lowercase option.

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Tip

Use our text tool to convert any text from uppercase to lowercase.

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Additional information

  • See the uppercase and lowercase definitions for further information and related links.

Dragon automatically capitalizes most words when appropriate. For example, Dragon recognizes and automatically capitalizes the first word in a sentence, most names and places, and many acronyms.

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If you need to make adjustments to the capitalization, use these commands.

Title Case

To capitalize a word as you dictate

  • Say Cap <word> to capitalize the next word you dictate.
  • Say Capitalize that to capitalize the last word you dictated.

To capitalize the next string of words as you dictate

  • Say Caps on to capitalize the first letter of every word you dictate.
  • Say Caps off to go back to normal capitalization.

To capitalize words you have already dictated

  • Say Capitalize <text> to change the specified text to title case.
  • Say Capitalize <text> to <text> to change a range of text from the first specified word through the second to title case.
  • Say Capitalize selection to change the selected text to title case.

Lowercase

To lowercase a word as you dictate

  • Say No Caps <word> to make the next word you dictate lowercase.
  • Say Lowercase that to make the last word you dictated lowercase.

To lowercase the next string of words as you dictate

  • Say No Caps on to make every word you dictate lowercase.
  • Say No Caps off to go back to normal capitalization.

To lowercase text you have already dictated

  • Say Lowercase <text> to change the specified text to lowercase.
  • Say Lowercase <text> to <text> to change a range of text from the first specified word through the second to lowercase.
  • Say Lowercase selection to change the selected text to lowercase.

All Caps

To make a word ALL-CAPS as you dictate

  • Say All Caps <word> to make the next word you dictate all-caps.

To make the next string of words all-caps as you dictate

  • Say All Caps on to make every word you dictate all-caps.
  • Say All Caps off to go back to normal capitalization.

To make text you have already dictated all-caps

  • Say Uppercase <text> to change the specified text to all-caps.
  • Say Uppercase <text> to <text> to change a range of text from the first specified word through the second to all-caps.
  • Say Uppercase selection to change the selected text to all-caps.