Many of you may be aware of the Change Case text options in the Format menu of MS Word. This wonderful feature will allow you to take text and, in one quick swoop, change the case of every letter to match your needs.

From the Change Case options, you can make text all lower case, all upper case, sentence case, toggle case or title case.

Simply make your choice and click OK.

Its a nice feature and it works perfectly, but wouldnt you like an even quicker way?

Yeah, everybody always wants to get the job done a little bit faster. I know I do!

So, heres a quick keyboard version of the Change Case feature.

Highlight your text to be changed and hit Shift + F3.

Dont like the case format you get?

No problem. Hit Shift + F3 again.

Poof! The text will change again. (Still dont like it? Then keep up with the Shift + F3. It will just keep rotating through the Change Case options until you find the one you need).

Wait, theres more! Heres a bonus to the whole Change Case thing.

Theres actually two different types of all caps. That is, if you know how to tap into the other set, known as small caps.

"See the" was done in regular caps, whereas "difference" was done with small caps.

Next question: How do we get the small caps?

Thats a good question and fortunately, its easy to answer.

When youve got something that needs to be emphasized (but not screamed at the reader), youve got something thats a good candidate for the small caps format.

To change text to small caps, simply highlight the text to be changed and then press Shift+ Ctrl + K on your keyboard. This will take your lower case typing and turn it into small caps. If you hit the key combination again, it will return your text to lower case characters.

You can also combine this with the Shift + F3 options. The small caps will replace the lower case option in the rotation of formats.

Thats it. Just another way to get your point across, without over emphasizing!

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Are you using Word 2007?

If so, you may be interested in this little tidbit of information!

In older versions of Word, you had to go into the Bullets and Numbering dialogue window to make changes to numbering or bullet styles. It wasnt a terribly long process, especially if youre fond of the right click method, but you still had to go into that window each time you needed to make a change. And lets face it, if you had a lot of changes to make, it was rather repetitive and tedious!

If you agree with me on that, youll be happy to know that things are a bit easier to access in Word 2007.

What youre looking for is on the Home ribbon in the Paragraph section.

While youve always had buttons to quickly turn numbering and bullets on and off, these buttons are just a little different.

Take a look on the right side of those buttons.

Yep, thats right. Youre seeing a down arrow that indicates youve got some easy access choices!

Click the down arrow on one of the buttons.

Youll see that common choices are right there for your choosing. If you arent happy with those, youll find that you can create a new list format via the "Define new" choice at the very bottom.

But, if you see a style you do like, theres no extra dialogue windows to open and close. Just a quick click and youve got instant access to the most common possibilities!

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