[Ham-Computers] RE: Is there a hotkey or utility that will change case?

[Hsu, Aaron (NBC Universal)]

You should be able to use the "Find and Replace" functionality in Word to do what you're asking.  I don't have Word 97 handy, but in Word 2003 you would do the following:

1.  Hightlight or change the formatting of all the words you want in uppercase.  For instance, select all the text you want in uppercase and change it to italics or something that isn't used anywhere else in the document.

2.  Click on Edit -> Replace.

3.  In the "Find what" section, click once in the box, but don't type anything.  Then click on the "Format" button at the bottom of the dialogue box.  You may need to click on the "more" button first to open the additional options of the dialogue box.

4.  After you've clicked on "Format", select "Font".  In the dialogue box that comes up, select the font style "italics" (or whatever formatting you chose earlier to hightlight the text).  Make sure not to click anything else, then click OK.  The "Find and Replace" dialogue should now show that you want to find text that's in italics.

5.  Now click once in the "Replace with" box and click on the "Format" button.

6.  In the "Format" dialogue box, click on the "All Caps" checkbox, then click OK.  The "Find and Replace dialogue should now show that you want to replace italicized text with "all caps".

7.  Click on the "Find next" button to see if it finds italicized text.  If so, then click "replace" to see if it's replaced with all caps text.

8.  If step 7 worked, then click on "replace all" to repeat the formatting change throughout the document.  If step 7 didn't work, check the "find" or "replace" formatting to see where the problem lies.


GL & 73,

  - Aaron, NN6O


-----Original Message-----
From: ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Philip KO6BB
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 5:15 PM
To: Computers Ham
Subject: [Ham-Computers] Is there a hotkey or utility that will change case?

Hi All,

When I edit "cheat sheets" for my music, I like to print everything in 
large, bold, upper case fonts for easy visibility.  Most of the text files 
that I get that have the words/chords to songs are usually written 
"normally, that is, with normal capitalization.

Is there some "hot-key" or command that I can use to change the "case" of 
all highlighted text.  The program I normally use for editing text files is 
Notepad, but I also have Wordpad and Office 97 on the machine.

73 de Phil,  KO6BB
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