Make small letters from capital letters. Replace capital letters in a MS Word document with lowercase ones
Microsoft Office is the most famous office software package for editing and creating tables, presentations, text and other types of documents. Today we will talk about the Word application, which almost every person is familiar with: children are taught to work with it in schools, colleges, and universities. Abstracts and documents are prepared using this program. However, few people are familiar with its extensive functionality. That is why today we want to tell you how to make large letters small in Word. In general, there is nothing complicated here - everything can be solved in just 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 make capital letters lowercase in Word
Not all people can touch-type, looking not at the keyboard, but at the screen of their laptop or computer - this is where problems of this kind arise. It is enough to press the “Caps Lock” key once, and then type, peering at every button on the keyboard... and when you notice that all the text is printed in capital letters, it will be too late to change anything. In this regard, we have made this instruction for you. So, to make all letters in Word small, you must follow these steps:
As you can see, thanks to the truly extensive functionality of the Microsoft Office Word program, the problem of converting large letters into small ones 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 carefully. Believe me, it hides many more 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 wish: small; large; letters, as in sentences; every word is capitalized, as well as changing case to reverse, where small ones become large and large ones become small.
Many of us, when typing text in Word, do not think about subsequent formatting. What if you suddenly need to convert lowercase letters to uppercase or vice versa for an entire paragraph? Well, don’t type this text again. I would like to offer an easy way to make all letters capital or small in Word.
To change the case of letters in a Word document, select the text you want to change. Next go to the tab home, if it is not active and press the button Register.
In this case, select the desired type of letter case change from the drop-down menu:
- As in sentences. The lowercase letter of the first word in the sentence will become capitalized.
- all lower case. Converts every letter in the text to lowercase.
- ALL CAPITAL. Converts every letter in the text to uppercase.
- Start with Capitals. The first letter of each word will be capitalized
- CHANGE CASE. Converts the first letter of each word to lowercase and capitalizes the remaining letters.
For example, if you forgot to turn off the key Caps Lock and without looking you typed a couple of sentences, then you will get something like:
Select the text and select the first option As in sentences. The letters will be in the correct case.
You can use the keyboard to convert capital letters to lowercase letters. To do this, select the text and click Alt + I to activate the tab home. Then click Alt+7, and then select the desired option using the cursor keys Up And Down or keys P(As in sentences) E(all lower case), IN(ALL CAPITAL), N(Start with Capitals), M(CHANGE CASE).
This is how easy it is to change the case of letters in Word and make the letters small or large.
By the way, the keyboard shortcut Shift + F3 allows you to select any register mode except the last one - CHANGE CASE, if you press this combination several times in turn.
According to the rules of the Russian language, a sentence must begin with a capital letter. The rest of the statement will be framed in small signs. If you have a pen, there will be no problems when writing text. What if the sentence needs to be entered into the computer's memory from the keyboard? The answer to this question is contained in this article.
Using the Caps Lock key
Interesting! Uppercase letters are capital letters. Lowercase characters are called lowercase.
Using the Shift key
Note! If you press the Caps Lock key on your keyboard and hold down the Shift button at the same time, the letters entered from the keyboard will be lowercase.
Using the keyboard shortcut “Shift+F3”
After changing the case in a text document, other characters may also undergo changes. For example, a slash after pressing the capsize key will turn into a vertical bar.
Note! If the Caps Lock light is off and capital letters are entered in a text editor, it means that one of the Shift keys is pressed. Check both buttons.
Buttons on the on-screen keyboard for writing lowercase letters
To open the on-screen keyboard:
Using the Caps Key
Using the "Shift" key
Changing capital letters to lowercase letters using the Microsoft Word toolbar
Microsoft Word 2003
Microsoft Word 2007
This is interesting! There are other types of character conversions in the Register window.
So the user can choose the following letter spellings:
Change letter size using the Font menu
Note! To quickly open the “Font” menu, the user can press the “Control + D” hotkeys located in the lower left corner of the keyboard.
If it is difficult to find the buttons, the “Font” menu can be called up by clicking on the arrow located in the lower right corner of the group of the same name.
Note! In the Font dialog box, the user can change not only the text size, but also the font itself, the color of characters, the spacing between characters, etc.
The first device for entering information appeared 150 years ago, when the first typewriter was invented at the end of the 19th century. The signs intended to display information on paper were arranged alphabetically. This layout caused inconvenience to the owners of this device, which is why the location of the keys was changed. Frequently used characters have been moved to the middle of the keyboard, while the rest have been distributed around the edges of the device.
Video - How to make large letters small
Which has very broad capabilities for processing various text documents is the Microsoft Word program, included in the Microsoft Office package. It is very important that Word has all the necessary tools for formatting any text. For different fragments of the same text, you can set almost any setting: color, font size and type, visual effect, and also apply a large set of styles in order to design what you have written. This article will discuss the capabilities of this program, as well as how to make all letters capitalize in Word and vice versa.
Key features in Microsoft Word
In Word you can set the alignment of lines and paragraph indents relative to the sides of the page. You can display any selected text as a bulleted or numbered list. In addition, in Word it is possible to divide what is written into columns, the parameters and number of which can be set additionally.
Using Word, you can insert various pictures, inscriptions, formulas, diagrams and other objects into text. You can also use the built-in tools in Word and create your own diagrams and drawings. For more convenient use, the program has the following service features: hyphenation, a mode for checking the correct spelling of document text, the process of automatically replacing various combinations of characters with the desired phrases or words. When preparing a document for printing, you can design the title page using standard templates, as well as create header and footer content, margins, orientation, and page format. In addition, before printing, you can preview several pages of the desired document at once.
How to make all letters capitalize in Word
Here's a little instruction. In order to make all letters capitalize in Word, you should follow a number of steps:
- First you need to select the printed text.
- Then you should go to the toolbar, and on the tab called “Home” click the “Register” button.
- In this list, select the entry “All capitals”.
This way you can change capital letters to lowercase, and also give a command to change the first letter in a word to capital and vice versa.
How to make capital letters small in Word
A similar problem often worries those people who do not know how to touch-type, looking at the computer or laptop screen rather than at the keyboard. If you press the Caps Lock key once, you may not notice that all the text will be written in capital letters. Therefore, in order to make capital letters lowercase, you will need to take the following steps:
- First, you need to select the part of the text in which the letters need to be made small.
- After this, you should open the tab called “Home” and find the “Font” section there.
- Then you need to left-click on the “Aa” icon. This icon, depending on which version of Word is installed on the computer, can be located in different places, including in the “Home” tab.
- Then you need to press the key combination Shift + F3 or select the “All lowercase” tab in the menu. Immediately after the action is completed, all highlighted words and letters will become small.
How to make text in capital letters in Word? You should remember that the “Aa” icon is responsible for the case, and if you click on it, you can format the text as needed: change large letters to small ones and vice versa. If you know this, then there should be no questions left about how to make all letters capitalize in Word.
Conclusion
So, the Microsoft Word program has truly extensive functionality. With its help you can very quickly convert small letters into large ones and vice versa. It is very important and useful for all users to study in more detail and thoroughly all the possible functions of this text editor.
Let's continue. Typically, the font size is set by selecting from a list. In this case, everything is the same. Type your letter, select it with the mouse and set the desired size. But the creators of Word and other programs never thought that to someone it comes to mind to put such font size in which one letter occupies as much as the entire A4 sheet. For this reason, in the font size selection list, the maximum size is not that large - “only” 72 points.
If you don’t have the required size, you can simply write it in the selection list, as shown in the figure, since the font size selection list is editable (what???). Unclear? Then you urgently need to learn Windows.
Again. Select your letter, then erase what is written there in the font selection list and write what you need. What number should I write? This generally depends on what type of font is chosen. Select until your letter is exactly the size of an A4 sheet. In my example, this is 800 points (to be more precise, I was too lazy to select).
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Other ways to enlarge a letter to A4 sheet size
As you may have noticed, the method shown above of stretching a letter across the entire A4 sheet has an obvious drawback - no matter how you increase the font size, the letter stubbornly does not want to become in the center of the A4. In the example below, this drawback is completely eliminated and the letter is located exactly in the center of the A4 sheet.
In this example, the problem was solved in a different way, but again in Word. It is worth remembering that almost any task has more than one way of implementation. You just need to be good at what you are doing. However, method number one is much more popular - few people want to think about it!
How to print numbers on the entire A4 sheet in Word
A very similar task - in my opinion, completely similar to the one discussed above. To create huge numbers for A4 size, you can use all the same methods that I showed in. So if you need to make sure that one number fits on a sheet of paper (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or the number 0), then consider that you can already do this. Well, this is, of course, if you carefully read what was written above.
And in addition to this, I’ll probably show you another way to enlarge the inscriptions to fill the entire sheet. Namely, contour symbols in A4 size. An example is shown in the figure. True, there is already a fill there, but you can figure out for yourself how to remove it... (hint: shape properties).
Why is this necessary? Well, for example, in order to color it all later. :) And indeed, color printers are not that common. By the way, you can read about printing color images on a black and white printer.
To make a figure that fits the entire A4 sheet, first remove the margins or make them as narrow as possible (about changing margins). After that, from the Ribbon menu in the “Insert” section, select WordArt and add it to the sheet. Then just increase the font, everything is clear here. It’s just worth considering one feature.
Use the text frame markers along the edges to expand the box so that your number fits. Otherwise, it will go beyond the frame and part of the number will not be visible. You also need to center the text so that it is in the middle of the sheet. To do this, drag it outside the frame border (usually down).
Features of printing letters in A4 sheet size
There are some features of text printing such sizes that I didn’t show above (lazy). You can watch this in the demo video where I show the process of creating giant letters in Word.
Video tutorial on increasing letters and numbers in Word to A4 sheet size
A fairly simple example shows how to make a huge letter or number. Large inscriptions are usually printed from such letters. How to do this, watch the video.
