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Changing case with Alt,O

Anonymous
2014-03-12T11:23:08+00:00

Please could anyone tell me how to retrieve the keyboard Alt+O shortcut that allows you to change the case of selected text to caps. on each word, sentence case, etc? (Shift+F3 doesn't do the same thing.) I had it, but it seems to have disappeared from my Normal template. It comes up with a box that says 'Office access key: Alt, O: continue typing the menu key sequence from an earlier version of Word'.

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Suzanne S Barnhill 277.5K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2014-03-13T16:18:14+00:00

Perhaps just a timing issue. If you press Alt alone, then you get the new (Ribbon) accelerator keys. If you press Alt simultaneously with one of the accelerators for the old menu bar (File Edit View Insert Format Tools Table Window Help), then you will be able to use those accelerators, but you will need to immediately add the letter(s) for item(s) on those menus. In the example, it was Alt+O, S to open the Format menu and select the Change Case item to open that dialog.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-03-12T14:53:31+00:00

    Thanks, Stefan. I didn't know that. But my problem is that when I press Alt+O nothing happens. It used to, but it doesn't any more, and I'm trying to get it to work again.

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  2. Stefan Blom 340.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-03-12T14:17:45+00:00

    Accelerator keys are different from keyboard shortcuts. To see the Change Case dialog box, you will have to press Alt+O, then release the keys and press E. Note that Suzanne used the letter "O," not the number zero, in her examples.

    [Edit: clarified the last sentence of my reply above]

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-03-12T14:09:51+00:00

    Thank you, Suzanne. That's what I'd like my Word to do, but it doesn't, so somewhere along the line I've lost the keyboard shortcut. I've checked, and Alt+0 isn't assigned to anything. The Change Case button in the Font group of my Home tab doesn't work either, I'm afraid. Not sure what the problem is.

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  4. Suzanne S Barnhill 277.5K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-03-12T14:04:45+00:00

    Alt+O, E will bring up the Change Case dialog, but you can also access it (as a menu) using the Change Case button in the Font group on the Home tab.

    If you want to use the dialog with the shortcut keys, then they are shown in the screen shot below:

    So you would use, for example, Alt+O, E, S for Sentence case, Alt+O, E, U for UPPERCASE, and so on. The shortcut selects the desired case; press Enter to apply.

    If you just want to use keyboard shortcuts instead of the mouse, you can do the same thing with Word 2010's native shortcuts. For this one, press Alt, which will display the accelerators for the tabs. Press H for the Home tab, then 7 for the Change Case button, then the appropriate key for the desired case.

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