Word Macro: How to convert capital letters to lower case letters

I hope someone can help me with the following problem:

I would like to write a macro for word that when I type a word in all
capital letters, I then can highlight that word and click a macro button or
shortcut key (i.e. press the CAPS lock key) and covert the highlighted
capital word to lower case word.

Thanx in advance.

That would be re-inventing the wheel. Format change case (SHIFT+F3 toggles
through the options) is built into Word to do this.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word




Leonardo Da Vinci wrote:
I hope someone can help me with the following problem:

I would like to write a macro for word that when I type a word in all
capital letters, I then can highlight that word and click a macro
button or shortcut key (i.e. press the CAPS lock key) and covert the
highlighted capital word to lower case word.

Thanx in advance.

I would like to write a macro for word that when I type a word in all
capital letters, I then can highlight that word and click a macro button or
shortcut key (i.e. press the CAPS lock key) and covert the highlighted
capital word to lower case word.

What Graham said:

That would be re-inventing the wheel. Format change case (SHIFT+F3
toggles through the options) is built into Word to do this.

Or

Ctrl-Shft-A, the AllCaps command. Assign it to a different key combination
if you want.

Andy

LDV,

The toggle option is excellent, but also check out an
expansion program called Shorthand at
www.pcshorthand.com. I'm a medical transcriptionist and
I use it to expand a few typed characters into commonly
dictated medical phrases to save my fingers the wear and
tear; it works in any program--Word, email, Notepad....
However, I also use it to do what you've ask and other
such things. For example, when I type "ucl" (my
ShortHand abbreviation meaning "upper case left"),
ShortHand highlights the word to the left of where I
typed ucl (removing the ucl of course) and uppercases
that word for me.

KJ


-----Original Message-----
That would be re-inventing the wheel. Format change
case (SHIFT+F3 toggles
through the options) is built into Word to do this.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word




Leonardo Da Vinci wrote:
I hope someone can help me with the following problem:

I would like to write a macro for word that when I
type a word in all
capital letters, I then can highlight that word and
click a macro
button or shortcut key (i.e. press the CAPS lock key)
and covert the
highlighted capital word to lower case word.

Thanx in advance.


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You may wish to look into Word's AutoCorrect feature for your abbreviations.
--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"wshq (removethis) @prodigy.net" wrote
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LDV,

The toggle option is excellent, but also check out an
expansion program called Shorthand at
www.pcshorthand.com. I'm a medical transcriptionist and
I use it to expand a few typed characters into commonly
dictated medical phrases to save my fingers the wear and
tear; it works in any program--Word, email, Notepad....
However, I also use it to do what you've ask and other
such things. For example, when I type "ucl" (my
ShortHand abbreviation meaning "upper case left"),
ShortHand highlights the word to the left of where I
typed ucl (removing the ucl of course) and uppercases
that word for me.

KJ


-----Original Message-----
That would be re-inventing the wheel. Format change
case (SHIFT+F3 toggles
through the options) is built into Word to do this.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word




Leonardo Da Vinci wrote:
I hope someone can help me with the following problem:

I would like to write a macro for word that when I
type a word in all
capital letters, I then can highlight that word and
click a macro
button or shortcut key (i.e. press the CAPS lock key)
and covert the
highlighted capital word to lower case word.

Thanx in advance.


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