Problem: Students often don't realize Caps Lock is on until they have typed several lines; they also forget to capitalize titles and proper nouns.

Problem: Correcting capitalization errors can take valuable teacher time and frustrate students.

Solution: Use Shift F3 to switch between Title Case, Upper Case, and Lower Case.

Classroom Application: This is a great time saver for anyone who needs to change the case of substantial amounts of text.

Directions:

• In Microsoft Word, highlight the word(s) that are in the wrong case.
• Hold down the Shift key and hit the F3 function key.
• .The highlighted word will change to all caps, first letter capitalized, or all lower case. Each time the Shift and F3 keys are pressed, the case option will change. Keep pressing Shift and F3 until the desired level of capitalization is displayed.

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