David wanted to find words with an initial capital letter and change the initial capital letter to lowercase. Using wildcards, he wrote a Find string that correctly found capitalized words. However, David was unable to figure out how to change the initial capital to lowercase. He thought of using a Replace string, but didn't know how to create one that would do that.

There is no way to do this in Word, at least not using Find and Replace by itself. The closest you can achieve is to create a macro that will use Find and Replace to step through all instances of your capitalized words and individually change the case of them.

You can, however, easily change the case of those letters by following these general steps:

1. Press Ctrl+F to display the Find tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.
2. Click the More button, if it is available. (See Figure 1.)



Figure 1. The Find tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.

3. Set up your wildcard search as you normally would to locate all the words that have the initial caps letter.
4. In the dialog box, make sure you select the Highlight All Items check box.
5. Use the drop-down list under the check box to select Main Document.
6. Click Find All. Word selects all the words that match the pattern you specified in step 2.
7. Press Esc to get rid of the Find and Replace dialog box. Your words should all still be selected.
8. Press Shift+F3 as many times as necessary to get the capitalization the way you want it for the selected words.