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When you type in a document in Microsoft Word using the default settings, you will get a mixture of capital and lowercase letters. But some scenarios call for you to use small caps in Word, which are smaller versions of the capital versions of letters.

Fortunately this is something that you can accomplish by changing a font option within Word. Our tutorial below will show you where to find this setting so that you can start typing in small caps. You can even apply small caps to existing text if you would like to convert it by making one small adjustment to the process.

How to Do Small Caps in Word 2013

The steps in this article were performed in Microsoft Word 2013. By completing the steps in this guide you will be able to start typing in small caps in Microsoft Word. At the end of this article we will show a sample of what this looks like so you can see if it is the desired result. Note that actual capitalized letters (the ones that you type by holding the Shift key or by using Caps Lock) will still be their normal size. The other letters that would traditionally be lowercase letters are instead displayed as smaller versions of their capital letter form.

Step 1: Open a document in Microsoft Word 2013.

Step 2: Click the Home tab at the top of the window.

Step 3: Click the small Font button at the bottom-right corner of the Font section of the ribbon.

Step 4: Check the box to the left of Small caps, then click the OK button at the bottom of the window.

Now when you type in your document, your letters will be small capital letters, as in the image below.

Note that everything you type will use these small caps until you turn it off. If you have existing text that you wish to convert to small caps, simply select that text first, then follow the steps above. The selection will then be converted to small caps.

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At one time or another, we have all accidentally tapped the Caps Lock key while typing. If you were multitasking while typing, it is completely possible you typed several sentences in all caps!

I’m so good at typing now that I don’t even look at the screen a lot of times when I know exactly what I need to type.

Rather than retyping the all-caps text, Word has a built-in option to fix the problem. This is so simple you will wonder why you have never used it before now!

Change Caps Lock Text to Sentence Case

So what do you do? First, highlight the text you typed in all caps.

Now all you need to do is press Shift + F3. Seriously, that is it! Your text will magically transform to lowercase.

So now that you have text in lowercase, wouldn’t it nice to change that lowercase text into nice, sentence case text? Press SHIFT + F3 a second time and the sentence magically turns into sentence case.

If you press SHIFT + F3 a third time, the text reverts back to all uppercase. If you ever need to use text in all uppercase, this will work as well. Highlight the text, then press SHIFT + F3 until the text appears in all uppercase.

Here is an added tip: If you press CTRL + SHIFT + K, the text will revert to small caps. Small caps is great for headings in documents.

The number of shortcuts built into Word can be overwhelming and no one really uses most of them, but some are very useful. They can certainly save us all a few wasted minutes spent re-typing documents.

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Also, check out my other post on great shortcuts you can use in Windows. If you are not a fan of keyboard shortcuts, you can use the ribbon bar to do the same thing.

Highlight the text you want to convert and then click on the Change Case button on the Home tab.

In addition to sentence case, lowercase and uppercase, you can capitalize each word or toggle the case. In order to get the small caps, you have to go through a few more steps. Right-click on the selected text and choose Font.

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Now you can check the Small caps box to get small caps text. It would have been more convenient if they just kept it in the Change Case box, but for whatever reason you have to open the Font dialog.

So that’s all there is to changing case in Word. For more Word tips, check out my post on 12 useful tips and tricks for Word. If you have any questions, feel free to comment. Enjoy!