The Caps Lock key is a convenient tool that can be used when the user needs to write one or more letters or even an entire text in capital letters. It is worth keeping in mind that pressing this key will cause a change appearance only the letters you type: for example, numbers and other special characters will not change when you use it.

Using the Caps Lock key

Additional options for using the key

This technique, however, can also be used in the opposite way. For example, you are typing text in capital letters with the Caps Lock key turned on, and you need to change one or more letters to lowercase. In this case, you should hold down the Shift button while pressing the desired letters: it will temporarily change to lowercase letters, and after you release it, the Caps Lock mode will become permanent again. Don't forget to turn it off after you've finished typing in capital letters.

This post is a collection of useful tips for computer programs, which have come in handy over the past few weeks.

1. Caps Lock translation

The Caps Lock function (typing text in capital letters) is activated by pressing the special “Caps Lock” button. We often notice that the Caps Lock key has been pressed even after a lot of text has been typed. Then it becomes necessary to remove caps lock in already typed text. You may also need to remove capslock in the text if you are copying material written in capital letters from another source and want to make the letters “normal,” because I already wrote that expressing thoughts in capslock is a sign of bad upbringing. Translating ready-made text from Caps Lock mode is very simple: paste the text in capital letters into Word, select it and press Shift+F3. Similarly, you can transform text and vice versa.

2. Sending messages on Skype

By default sending messages in Skype latest version occurs when you press the Enter key. But the key combinations in Skype can be changed if desired. Go to “Tools -> Settings -> Chats and SMS -> Chat Settings” and set the Enter key to “line break” instead of “send message”. Now messages will be sent using the Ctrl+Enter key combination.

3. How to change file extension in Windows 7

Changing the extension is not difficult, the main thing is to enable the display of file extensions. This is done as follows: open any folder on the computer and in the upper left corner click on the “Organize -> Folder and Search Options” button, on the “View” tab uncheck the “Hide extensions for registered file types” line. After this, all files on your computer (music, graphics, text, etc.) are displayed with extensions. To change the extension, right-click on the file, select “Rename” and enter the desired extension instead of the existing one.

4. How to add a movie to iTunes

Previously, I never had a question about how to upload a movie to iTunes, because this is done, in principle, in an elementary way: the video file is simply dragged into the media library from the folder in which it is stored. The same action can be performed by clicking “File -> Add file to library” in the application menu or simply pressing the hot keys Ctrl+O. But today I was faced with the fact that several films of a format suitable for the iPad are not added to iTunes; the program simply ignores attempts to add the file without producing any errors. Google came to my aid and told me what to do if in a standard way Movies are not transferred to iTunes: find the folder “Users/(username)/My Music/Itunes/iTunes Media/Automatically Add to iTunes” on your computer and put the required movies into it; restart iTunes and the films will appear in your library. Thus, I was able to upload all the films except one - it continues to “resist” and appears in the “Not added” subfolder created by the system in the “Automatically add to iTunes” folder.

Until today, I was sure that if I accidentally pressed CapsLock, there was no turning back and I would have to retype everything. Because you can change lowercase to uppercase in the font options, but if you’ve already typed everything in capitals at once, then it’s a disaster :) Of course, this never happened to me, but once upon a time, my colleague typed the entire document in this manner and I had to retype it. If only I knew this simple secret back then!

It turned out that you don’t need to use any complex scripts or anything like that for this.

MS Word for Windows

To replace all uppercase (typed with CapsLock on) letters in Word for Windows you need to select required text and press F3 holding Shift button. Easy 🙂 Checked for MS Word 2007 and 2010.

You accidentally typed all the text in capital letters.

Select the parts of the text that you want to convert to lowercase.

Press Shift on your keyboard and hold down this key and press F3. Hooray! All selected text is now written in lowercase letters. Tested for Word 2007 and 2010.

If you want to transform all lowercase letters into uppercase letters, then the same steps will help you do this too.

MS Word for Mac

To replace all uppercase (typed with CapsLock on) letters in Word for Mac you need to select required text and open menu “Format -> Change Case...”, select wanted option (there are 5 of them) and choose OK. Not so easy but variable :)

If you have MS Office for Mac, then changing the case is also possible. In addition, this version of MS Word allows you to select the final result.

Select the text to change and open the “Format” menu (I have the English version, but the screenshot should make it clear what the equivalent is in the Russian version).

In the menu, select the “Change Case” option (I think in the Russian version there may be something about changing the case).

In the dialog box that appears, select the desired result. Unlike Word for Windows, the following transformations are possible:

• The first letter in a sentence is capital, the rest are lowercase
• all lower case
• ALL CAPITAL
• Every Word Started with a Capital Letter
• FIRST LOWER LINE, REST ALL CAPITAL