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Applying the All Caps Format
Summary: If you absolutely need for some text to appear in capital letters, one way to accomplish your goal is to format the text using the All Caps check box. Accessing the check box via the menus can be bothersome if you need to do it over and over again, so Word provided a shortcut key to apply the attribute. (This tip works with Microsoft Word 97, Word 2000, Word 2002, and Word 2003.)
Word provides a formatting option to show text as uppercase, even when it is not. You apply this option by choosing the All Caps check box on the Font dialog box. (Click here to see a related figure.) This formatting feature is helpful if you have a selection you want to print as all uppercase, but you may well decide to convert it back to normal upper- and lowercase text later.
If you use this formatting feature quite a bit, it can get bothersome to continually pull up the Font dialog box and click on the All Caps check box. A faster way is to simply select the text you want to affect and then press Ctrl+Shift+A.
Tip #1449 applies to Microsoft Word versions: 97 2000 2002 2003
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