Imagine receiving an entire Word document in all capital letters and needing it for a presentation? Don't worry: you can easily switch between uppercase and lowercase in Word . This method works on all operating systems that include Microsoft Word.
It's quite possible that you've started writing a document in Word at some point and, without realizing it, all the text is in uppercase. Do you need to delete all the text and start over? Of course not ; Microsoft already has solutions for these situations and offers a quick fix to convert all the text from uppercase to lowercase or vice versa. Let's see how to do it.
Perhaps you need part of a text from a website or ebook, but that entire paragraph or page is in all capital letters. However, in just a few steps, we can convert that paragraph or entire page into a visually more user-friendly text.
How to change from uppercase to lowercase in Word – step by step
The first thing we must do is open the document in Microsoft Word, the most famous word processor on the market and the one that is used the most throughout the world, both at a business level and at a user level as well as at an educational level.
Once the document is open, select all the text in uppercase with your mouse—as if you were going to make it bold, underline it, etc. Then, go to the top toolbar in Word . Click on 'Home' and then look in the 'Font' section . The attached image shows you which button to click. You should also look for an icon in the menu represented by a capital 'A' and a lowercase 'a'.
Options offered by this character change button
By pressing the button, we will see that we are offered different options. And they are the following:
- sentence type: This means that, just as we would start each sentence, the first word would have the first letter capitalized
- Lower case: all the characters that we mark will become lowercase
- Capital letters: all the characters that we mark in the text will become capital letters
- Capitalize each word: this option offers you the possibility of putting each first letter of each word that makes up the indicated text in capital letters
- Toggle case: with this option we will be able to insert the two types of letters in a text
- one-byte character: the characters that we usually use
- two-byte character: used in some Asian languages ​​to be represented on the screen
With all these options, we can experiment with the words and letters displayed in a Word document. It's that simple to switch between uppercase and lowercase in Word. Now, the Microsoft Office suite operates on a subscription basis . This can be monthly or annual . The annual option is usually more competitively priced. A Personal subscription, paid monthly, costs €7. The annual subscription, on the other hand, costs €69. This gives you up to 1 TB of OneDrive storage and allows you to use your account on 5 different devices.
How to change from uppercase to lowercase in Google Docs
Although Word is the quintessential word processor, it's worth remembering that to use it, you absolutely must have a monthly or annual subscription—we discussed the prices in the previous section. This is why many users prefer to opt for cloud-based and, above all, free alternatives. And one of these options that's gaining popularity is Google Docs, the web-based word processor from Google.
In this case, we can also do the same as we showed you in the previous section dedicated to Word. However, to make the necessary changes in Google Docs, we must follow other steps. We'll explain them below:
- The first thing is to host the document that we need to edit on Google's servers
- We open that document to edit it
- We mark all the text that we need to change from uppercase to lowercase in Google Docs -the same thing we did in Word
- Now we go to the top toolbar and click on 'Format'
- The first option in the drop-down menu that appears is 'Text'. Mouse over that option
- In the new menu, at the bottom of the whole, we see the option to 'Use of capital letters'. Hover your mouse over it again
- On this occasion, the options offered to us are reduced to only three: 'lowercase', 'uppercase', 'First letter of title in uppercase'
- Choose the one that suits you best
Remember that Google Docs, being cloud-based, allows you to access your documents from any device with an internet connection . There are also dedicated apps for mobile platforms like Android and iOS. Download links are below.
