Change all caps to lowercase
Sorry, this isn’t so much an idea as it is a grype with a sudo-solution. I received an email that was in all caps and I needed to change it to lowercase to add the text to the web. First of all, in case you are new to the web, all caps in digial communications means you are yelling. Some people really do yell all the time and therefore it is appropriate for them to type in all caps all the time. But all caps from a realatively quiet person just doesn’t seem right. Anyway, to end the babelling, I needed to convert the all caps text quickly into lowercase. I found through a google search that you can do this in word by selecting the text and pressing shift+F3. However, words that needed to be capilized had to be changed by hand. Grrr, why can’t word be smart enough to capitalize all the words that should be capitalized? It does it while I type, why not when I hit shfit+F3? Anyone know if there is a keyboard short cut to let Word guess at how to capitalize all lowercase words that should be capitalized. I guess what I need is a wordprocessor that can read my mind. Perhaps that’s a little to creepy. Anyway, that’s my watercool bubble of the week. Let me know what your thoughts are!
October 8th, 2008 at 2:04 am
There is a “change case” command in Word that lets you choose all caps, all lowercase, title case or sentence case. Unfortunately, it is not intuitive. You have to tell it what to do, and as far as I know there is no keyboard shortcut. Wish I had a better answer.
October 8th, 2008 at 2:07 am
Hey, this is a cool blog idea! Great stuff. I love the humor intertwined with the tips. I look forward to reading more!
Here’s an easy solution for the caps issue - unless the words that you need to capitalize are in the middle of the sentence (although it takes most of the hard work out of it): Go to Format, Change Case, Sentence Case.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
It would be nice if someone could write a plugin for Thunderbird or Firefox that could predict when a flash of OBNOXIOUS ALLCAPS TEXT was floating through the tubes, and downconvert it automatically to lowercase, so my sensibilities don’t have to be offended.
For me, my gears get ground when using apostrophes for plurals and quotation marks without a good reason.