I am typing a paper and for some reason all my letters are in upper case. How do I change them to lower case?
Thank you so very much. I don't know how that happened but that corrected the problem. Thanks again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Know, also, that sometimes a keyboard will go a little weird on you for seemingly inexplicable reasons. (Actually the reasons aren't inexplicable at all, and have to do with memory paging and keyboard bios weirdness... but I digress.) The symptom can be kinda' what you describe: Your keyboard lock isn't on, yet you're getting all caps. Extremely rarely, the CAPS LOCK toggle can get reversed. When this is the case, caps lock will be ON when the little light is OFF (which is the opposite of what it's supposed to be). The solution on the extremely rare occasions when that happens is, sadly, usually to reboot the machine -- and I don't mean a soft reboot where you just restart Windows. I mean a hard reset where you power all the way down, then up again. Somewhat less rarely (but still quite uncommonly), the SHIFT key will not release... and I don't mean physically (although, if you've spilled something sticky into your keyboard and the SHIFT key really is sticking down, then that can happen, too... but I'm not referring to that). The SHIFT key can stay in the shifted (capitalized) state, electronically-speaking, even if it fully returns to the undepressed condition after removing your finger from it. When this happens -- and, again, it shouldn't happen very often or it may mean you have a hardware problem -- simply depressing the LEFT-SHIFT key a few times, quickly and repeatedly, will usually clear the problem. Just chimin' in.
No problem, thanks for chiming in. I need all the help I can get. I am not getting all my words in bold when I do not have bold selected. Weird, just plain weird.
Did you mean "now" instead of "not"? If so, are you saying that this is happening throughout Windows... in all programs? Or are you saying that it's only happening in Microsoft Word?
Yes, I meant "now," but I managed to figure it out. I installed a new version of MS Word because of all the formatting problems I had while at CCHS and it is taking me some time to figure it all out. Thanks for your help.
extra tip Jimmy, As an aside; if this happens and you have written a large chunk of words in CAPS and want change it to lower case you have the option to 'Change Case' under the format menu. Choose the 'Sentence Case' option to keep correct capitalisation of first letters. Don't forget to highlight the affected text first! All the best, Dave C.
Re: extra tip Thank you. Know what? As many times as I have pulled up the format menu, I never saw "change case" until now. I would have been so much easier had I seen it, ha! Time to visit my optometrist.
Jimmy, Ha! I know the feeling, my wife is learning Access and I am trying to teach myself advanced Excel. It's a veritable jungle out there. All the best, Dave C.
Re: Re: extra tip And to learn to type while looking at the screen, and not your fingers! Mavis Beacon, here Jimmy comes!
Re: Re: Re: extra tip Ha! Ha! Actually, I don't look at my fingers until I have to type anything on the top row--numbers, symbols, etc. Mavis Beacon? Naw! Marva Collins is my hero! Congrats again on your new position. Guess you have have to set up blind trusts now, huh?
Windows will never catch on... I'm glad I bought a Mac. I have never seen this kind of behavior on my computer. One thing is for sure: as user-unfriendly as it is, Windows will never catch on with mainstream users.
Re: Windows will never catch on... You're kidding, right? I mean, that's what the winky thingy in your post was about, right? Sarcasm? If not, then you've somehow missed the fact that the Mac never occupied more than 11% of the desktop computer market... ever! Not even in its heyday. And it occupies less than 4% of said market now... and that number's declining. Windows, on the other hand, enjoys around 90% of the desktop computer market... and has enjoyed that kind of marketshare for years and years... with no end in site... not even in the face of challengers such as Windows-like interfaces that sit atop the free/open-source Linux OS. And, by the way, Macs ain't perfect, either. I've seen Macs do some of the oddest things that I've ever seen a computer do... and, believe me when I tell you that in my 30 years of IT I've seen more computers do odd things than probably everyone around here... combined! The Mac OS is not the end-all and be-all of ease-of-use, either. While it most certainly outdoes Windows in many areas, Windows has gotten much better in overall user-friendliness of late; and as the Mac OS continues to attempt more and more complex tasks, some of its well-known, take-newbies-by-the-hand features have evaporated or have been diminished. The Mac OS also teaches bad computer use habits by being so user-friendly, and not requiring of the user that s/he learn to sweat the small stuff, that Mac users become careless and laissez-faire in their computering habits. Just ask any IT manager or director: The Mac users in the company tend to be biggest pains in the rear, and the hardest to work with. Just trying to offer some balance... realizing, of course, that I've ticked-off every Mac user reading this. I tend to do that sort of thing whenever anyone gets too pro-Mac!
