When the user forgets to turn off the "Caps lock" key, the text ends up being typed in capital letters. If, of course, the piece of text is not large, then you can easily make the uppercase letters lowercase using a special character. When, in front of the author, there is an article of 10 pages with capital letters, then a slightly different approach to solving this problem is required.

Lowercase and uppercase

Some users are still confused about which letters are called uppercase and which are lowercase. To clarify this point a little, consider an example.

"THE OFFER IS PRINTED IN CAPITAL LETTERS ONLY" - in other words, "IN CAPITAL", using the "caps lock" button.

“Here is a variant of a sentence written only in lowercase letters” - or as they say, using small letters. In this case, it is necessary to turn off the "caps lock".

On such simple examples the types of spelling of words are considered, both with capital letters and capital letters. Now let's look at ways to replace uppercase letters with lowercase ones.

Converting "" CAPITAL "to" lowercase "letters

If in the article part of the text is typed in capital letters, then two ways will help to capitalize them.

Method 1: Register sign

Highlight a specific paragraph in which you want to remove capital letters. Go to the "Home" tab in the "Font" area. Click on the "Register" button and select the "all lowercase" option. Deselect the text by clicking once in an empty area of ​​the sheet.

Method 2: Keyboard shortcut

First, you need to select a part of the text to which the font size change will be applied. While holding down the "Shift" key, press the "F3" key several times.

Stop at the desired option, release the "Shift" button and deselect the text by clicking on an empty space.

Microsoft Office Is the most famous office suite for editing and creating tables, presentations, text and other types of documents. Today we will focus on the Word application, with which almost everyone is familiar: children are taught to work with it in schools, colleges, universities. With the help of this program, abstracts and documents are prepared. However, few people are familiar with its extensive functionality. That is why today we want to tell you how to make large letters in Word small. In general, there is nothing complicated here - everything is solved literally in a few clicks, but if you are faced with this problem for the first time, finding a magic button that will make all capital letters lowercase can take a long time.

How to lowercase uppercase letters in Word

Not all people can print blindly, looking not at the keyboard, but at the screen of their laptop or computer - this is where these kinds of problems come from. All you have to do is press the Caps Lock key once, and then type, peering at each key on the keyboard ... and when you notice that all the text is typed in capital letters, it will be too late to change anything. In this regard, we have made for you this manual... So, to make all letters in Word small, you must follow these steps:


As you can see, thanks to the really extensive functionality Microsoft programs Office Word, the problem of converting large letters to small letters is solved literally in a matter of seconds. That is why we advise all our users to study the functionality of this text editor more thoroughly. Believe me, it still hides a lot of interesting, and most importantly useful surprises.

Remember that the "Aa" icon is responsible for the case of letters. By clicking on it, you can format the text as you like: small; large; letters as in sentences; capitalize each word, and reverse the case where small letters become large and large letters become small.

The need to make large letters small in the document Microsoft Word most often occurs in cases when the user has forgotten about the enabled CapsLock function and wrote some part of the text like that. Also, it is quite possible that you just need to remove the uppercase letters so that the entire text (or part of it) is written in lowercase only. In both cases, large letters are a problem (task) that needs to be solved, and below we will tell you how to do this.

Obviously, if you already have a large piece of text typed in large letters or there are just a lot of uppercase letters that you do not need, deleting all the text and typing it again or replacing uppercase letters with lowercase letters manually, one by one, is impractical. There are only two options for solving this simple task in Microsoft Word and one more alternative, and we will consider each of them further.

Method 1: "Register"

Since large and small letters are essentially the same characters, simply written in different case, to replace the first with the second, we turn to the text editor tool of the same name located in the group "Font", directly in "Main" tab.

Method 2: Hotkeys

Most of the basic and commonly used word processing tools from Microsoft, in addition to their buttons on the control panel, have keyboard shortcuts. With their help, we can make big letters small even faster.

Optional: Changing uppercase to small uppercase

In addition to directly changing the case from lowercase to uppercase and vice versa, Microsoft Word allows you to literally do what is indicated in the title of this article - to turn large letters into small letters, or rather, ordinary capital letters into small capital letters, thus obtaining a type of style, which is called droplet. The resulting characters will be slightly larger than lowercase (but smaller than uppercase) in size, and their appearance will remain exactly the same as the letters of the given register.

The text can be typed in different programs: WordPad, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, or Notepad, but the keyboard capabilities are the same in all of these programs. It can be switched from Russian to English by pressing two keys at the same time: as a rule, it is Alt / Shift or Crtl / Shift. There are also key combinations for switching the case on the keyboard, which we will talk about below.

How to capitalize the keyboard

If you carefully examine all the labels on the keyboard buttons, we will find several keys with strange designations - service keys. Some of them will help us to make lowercase and uppercase letters.

By default, all letters are printed in small - lowercase. To capitalize the first letter, you must simultaneously press two keys: the letter and Shift. Shift switches registers. In this case, the sizes of the numbers do not change. If you press Shift and a number at the same time, a punctuation mark will appear on the screen. Which one exactly depends on the keyboard layout and on the language in which the text is currently being typed.

The keyboard layout can be changed through the "Control Panel" in the "Keyboard" tab, but do not rush to do this. As a rule, by default, when pressing Shift / a digit is printed the character that is shown on the key. At English layout the sign shown above the number is printed, and in Russian - the sign on the key next to the number.

If you need to make not only the first, but all the letters in the text in capital letters, then you will have to type with one hand, because the other will hold down Shift at all times. But this is inconvenient, which is why the keyboard has a Caps Lock key. If you press it, all letters will be printed in capital letters. Only the number keys will not be affected by Caps Lock. If you also press Shift while Caps Lock is pressed, a small letter or punctuation mark will be printed on the number keys.

If Caps Lock is pressed, an indicator on the keyboard lights up, by which you can always find out what letters you will now start typing.

How to capitalize with Office

Microsoft Office is a very handy program: sometimes it fixes some errors by itself or allows you to do it faster. For example, if you forget to capitalize on a name or city name, the Office will correct the mistake by changing the small letter to capitalized.

But here you need to be careful, because The office can overdo it. For example, in the words split-system, he will definitely try to write Split with capital letter, considering it the name of the city. The same will happen if we are talking about a Trojan virus: after all, Trojan is a name! If you write about viruses more often than about ancient heroes, then you should add the "Trojan" with a small letter to the Word dictionary. To do this, right-click on the word and select "Add to Dictionary" in the menu that opens.

In case you find that you forgot to capitalize the first letters where necessary, you can use the Word menu. Select the text that is typed with the wrong case. In the "Format" tab, select "Case". A window will pop up, which will offer a choice of several options for changing the case. All that remains is to check the box in the desired option, for example, "MAKE ALL LETTERS IN CAPITAL" (uppercase). You can also completely change the register there.

Though Excel program belongs to Microsoft Office, it contains all these software Vorda do not work. There you need to type text in the cells, as in Notepad. Therefore, if you forgot to capitalize letters in Excel, you will have to fix it manually.

How to make large letters on the keyboard?

If you need to type several letters so that they are LARGE, then for this you can simply press and hold Shift key... And if you need to type a large amount of text in BIG letters, then there are options here:

• you can press the Caps Lock key before typing,
• or you can, if you are typing text in Word (Microsoft Word), just select the desired piece of text and, while holding down the Shift key, press the F3 key. Each time you press the F3 key, the case will change, and you can easily change any text from small to large, and from large to small.

• To make large letters on the keyboard - find the Caps Lock key on the left, press once and you will type in large letters. Then, to switch to small ones, press Caps Lock again. If you only need a few large letters, hold down the Shift key and type.

  In order to translate the keyboard into large letters, you need to press the Caps Lock button on it. To return back small letters, you need to press e a second time. If you need, for example, to type a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence, then you can press and hold Shift key type this letter and release the key.

• How to make letters large

  In general, for this purpose there is a specially designed key Caps Lock (from the English capitals lock - fixation of capital letters). But it may be easier to take any ready-made text and convert it to uppercase. Many programs make it very easy to do this, for example, in text editor AkelPad for this you need to select the text, and press the key combination Ctrl + 6.

You need to press the Caps Lock key and write in large letters. As soon as you want to write in small letters again, then press the same key a second time. Or you can just hold down the Shift key and type text on the keyboard at the same time.

To write in large letters, you can increase the font size, as in Word document and in the Internet browser settings.

If we are talking about uppercase and lowercase letters, then you can write in capital letters by pressing the Shift key and typing. Or you can press the Caps Lock key (look for e to the left, above Shift) then all the letters that you will type will be large. You can cancel this function by pressing the Caps Lock key again.

To print letters, a series of letters or a sentence, you need to press Caps Lock and release it, then type - the letters will become large.

If you need to type one or more letters, then you can press the shift key, left or right. Type while holding the key - while large letters are needed.

The third way is to type the text in the editor, then select the text that you want to make in large letters with the mouse, and press the F3 key - and the letters will become large. And if you repeat, they will be small again - the action is reversible.

If you need to write one large letter, then it is more convenient to use the Shift key. While holding it, you must simultaneously press the desired letter key and the letter will be printed in upper case.

If you want to write several large letters in a row, it is more convenient to use the Caps Lock key. You do not need to hold it; to return to small letters, press it again.

Well, it's as easy as shelling pears. To make the letters large when typing, you need to press just one button - Caps Lock, to make them small again, you need to press it again.

This button is on the left of the keyboard.