Re: I dont want to type everything in capital, even thougt i m not

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I absolutely did not press CtrlShftA, and the style I selected was the
standard Microsoft Header 2. Also, the shift effect included the fact that
when I typed 12345 I got !@#$% which does not happen under allcaps. From
looking at other postings, I am not the only one getting these anomalous
results. That is why I tried to give you a complete description of the
circumstances in which these results occurred.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

> Perhaps you enabled All Caps (Ctrl+Shift+A) or perhaps the style you
> selected had All Caps formatting?
>
> --
> Suzanne S. Barnhill
> Microsoft MVP (Word)
> Words into Type
> Fairhope, Alabama USA
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>
> "John Blackwell" <John Blackwell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:CF8F183A-512A-4875-A8C1-449F64BFF728@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > I think I know what he was asking, since the same thing seems to happen
> with
> > me quite frequently.
> >
> > Just now, I was creating a new Word document. I had just finished some
> > bulleted items, and wanted to start a new subject, so I chose a 'heading
> 2'
> > style, and began typing. Everything I typed appeared as if I were holding
> the
> > shift key down. Nothing I did reversed this unwanted effect. Eventually,
> I
> > was able to cut and paste the text I had written into a notepad file,
> close
> > and reopen word, cut and paste everything back into Word, and reapply the
> > formatting discarded by notepad. Was there a better solution?
> >
> > "Ms_PC" wrote:
> >
> > > Have you got the Caps Lock key on? If you want one capital letter at
> the
> > > beginning of a sentence or for names, you should switch the Caps Lock
> off,
> > > and press and hold the key below it (it has an arrow on it and there is
> > > another key which does the same on the right side) then press the letter
> you
> > > want as a capital . You can type everything in caps if you want as this
> can
> > > be quicker than trying to type using the Shift Key to get odd capitals
> then
> > > you can select the text and change it using the Format, Change-Case
> options
> > > where you can choose to change the text to sentence or Title Case.
> Hope
> > > this helps.
> > >
> > > "vp" wrote:
> > >
> > > >
>
>
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