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You can change the capitalization, or case, of selected text in a document by selecting a single button on the Home tab called Change Case.

Note: For information on automatic capitalization rules, see Choose AutoCorrect options for capitalization, spelling, and symbols.

Change case

To change the case of selected text in a document, do the following:

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

  2. Go to Home > Change case  .

  3. Do one of the following:

    • To capitalize the first letter of a sentence and leave all other letters as lowercase, select Sentence case.

    • To exclude capital letters from your text, select lowercase.

    • To capitalize all of the letters, select UPPERCASE.

    • To capitalize the first letter of each word and leave the other letters lowercase, select Capitalize Each Word.

    • To shift between two case views (for example, to shift between Capitalize Each Word and the opposite, cAPITALIZE eACH wORD), select 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.

See also

Insert a drop cap

Choose AutoCorrect options for capitalization

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