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If you're looking to speedily modify the case of the text in a slide of your PowerPoint presentation, Microsoft Part provides a couple of quick and piece of cake means to do and so—and several different text case styles to choose from. Here'south how.

Change the Example of Text Using the Ribbon

Open the PowerPoint presentation and navigate to the slide that contains the text you want to modify the case of. One time there, highlight the text past clicking and dragging your cursor over the text.

If you want to highlight all the text in a given slide, yous tin can use the Ctrl + A (Command + A for Mac users) keyboard shortcut. This will highlight all other objects (such equally images) as well, merely that's okay—the but change that will take place is with the text.

Quickly select all objects

The text in our example is currently all caps. Let's change that.

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With the text selected, navigate to the "Font" grouping of the "Home" tab and select the "Change Case" option.

Change case option in Font group

In the drib-downward menu that appears, you'll have five options to choose from:

  • Sentence case: Change the kickoff letter of each judgement to capital letter while leaving all others lowercase.
  • lowercase: Changes all letters to lowercase.
  • UPPERCASE: Changes all messages to uppercase.
  • Capitalize Each Give-and-take: Capitalizes the commencement letter of each word.
  • tOGGLE cASE: Shifts between the currently selected case view and its reverse. For example, if you're currently using the uppercase case view, selecting tOGGLE cASE will switch the text to lowercase.

One important annotation is that this does not take into consideration proper nouns and other special exceptions. What you lot run across is what you get. As a matter of good exercise, be sure to proofread your presentation to ensure everything appears equally information technology should.

Select the selection y'all'd like to use from the drop-downwardly carte du jour. In this case, we'll use "Judgement Case."

Select the Sentence Case option

The selected text will at present reflect the selected pick.

Sentence case text example

Repeat these steps with each slide that contains text that requires example changes.

Change the Case of Text Using Shortcut Keys

As with about things in PowerPoint, there are a few shortcut keys to speedily brand a case change with selected text.

Windows

Using the Windows shortcut key allows yous to toggle between iii dissimilar case options:

  • lowercase
  • UPPERCASE
  • Capitalize Each Word

Once you've selected the text by clicking and dragging the mouse over the desired text (or using Ctrl + A to select all objects in the slide), press Shift + F3 until the style you're looking for has been selected.

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Mac

Using the Mac shortcut key is similar to Windows—and allows y'all to toggle betwixt the same three options:

  • lowercase
  • UPPERCASE
  • Capitalize Each Word

One time you've selected the text past clicking and dragging the mouse over the desired text (or using Control + A to select all objects in the slide), press Fn + Shift + F3 until the style you're looking for has been selected.