Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here: Using Find and Replace to Change Text Case.
Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated January 22, 2022)
This tip applies to Word 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
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:
Figure 1. The Find tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.
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2023-10-20 06:55:38
Kalpesh
Thank you so much. This was really very helpful
2023-02-10 00:36:12
V S Rawat
how to capitalize first letter of first word in every paragraph (separated by ^p) in MS word?
And it cannot be just displaying the letter as capital using MS word's font settings because I have to take that text to some other app, so it has to be actual capitalization that stays across apps.
have posted the same question elsewhere also in this site.
Thanks.
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