Then you can name your preferred font set before clicking Save. Just use the drop-down for each to find a font more to your liking. This is where you set the two Styles I told you about earlier, +Body and +Headings, which in turn control basic settings for many of the other Styles in a Word document. On the left, you’ll see Heading font and Body font. That’s going to take you into the Create New Theme Fonts dialog box. From here, you want to choose Customize Fonts. Clicking on Fonts will give you a list of preconfigured font sets. Over on the far right is a drop-down called Fonts. These settings are found in the Design tab (introduced into Microsoft Word with version 2013). Fortunately, you can permanently change just two Styles (+Body and +Headings) to give your documents a more businesslike typeface. One of the most persistent frustrations legal users have with Microsoft Word fonts is the default font settings. Letters that would be uppercase using the other options will be slightly larger than letters that would be lowercase using the other options.If you’re sick of MicroSoft word fonts Calibri and Cambria, change your default heading and body styles so you can start every new Word document with the fonts you prefer. NOTE: Small caps in the Font dialog box can be used in conjunction with the other two methods for changing case. Confused? It’s a bit like strikethough or superscript formatting which changes the appearance in the document, but the underlying letters haven’t changed. They change the look of the letters but don’t change the underlying Upper/lower case of the letters. These two ‘Caps’ options are different from regular Change Case choices. All caps – All letters will be capitalized, the same as if UPPERCASE was selected using the method described above.Small caps – All letters will be capitalized, but letters that were already lowercase will be slightly smaller, as shown below.There are two options for capitalization on the Font dialog box. Always look for them on the ribbon and click to discover a lot more choices than the basic Office ribbon offerings We’ve talked about those little icons many times at. The Font dialog box is under the arrow in the bottom right corner of the Font group of the Home tab on the Ribbon. There are two lesser known change case options hiding under the Home | Font part of the ribbon. Uppercase letters become lowercase, and all lowercase letters are changed to uppercase. Capitalize each word – the first letter of each word will be uppercase, and the rest lowercase.
Uppercase – all the selected text goes to UPPER case.Lowercase – all text will forced to lowercase.Sentence case – The first letter of each sentence in the selected text is capitalized and the rest will be lowercase.There are two more choices here than using Shift + F3. When you click the button, a dropdown menu will appear showing different options for you to choose. Sentence case (first letter of each sentence is uppercase and the rest lowercase)Īnother way to change the case of text is to select the text that you want to change and click the Change Case button on the Font group of the Home tab on the Ribbon.This option will toggle around three different case options: To change text using only the keyboard, highlight the selected text, hold down the shift key and press F3. Replace text – good when there’s many words or phrases to change.There are four ways to change the case of existing text in Word: ‘change case’ can become ‘Change Case’ or ‘CHANGE CASE’ without retyping. Change Case options in Word, like many Word features goes beyond the obvious choices on the ribbon.Īlter the upper/lower case of words, phrases or more.