Keyboard shortcut to change case

Is there any keyboard shortcut to change case anywhere? By 'anywhere' I mean not in a particular program or software. We know Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V will work anywhere. Just like this, is there any keyboard shortcut to change case?

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I'm assuming you aren't speaking of the CAPSLOCK key. That would be too obvious. You wish to change current text to upper case that is already on the screen to uppercase correct? If so then in short... No. Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, and Ctrl+X are universal partly because it is part of Windows. It sounds like you don't want a software solution so that really cuts your answer to a quick "No there isn't a standard shortcut key to upper case all words"

Having slogged through several pages of Google results for "Windows 10 toggle text case" I eventually found this free utility that does the jobchange text caps in any-program.

Having installed the program and run it, you can use the shortcuts Win+Alt+[key] to convert selected text to the desired case:

+Alt+u = UPPERCASE

+Alt+l = lowercase

+Alt+t = Title Case

+Alt+s = Sentence case

It seems to work in most programs and in Windows dialogs, in fact so far I haven't found anywhere it doesn't work, but it's not guaranteed to work absolutely everywhere.

Bug: If no text is selected, the keyboard shortcuts will (sometimes) insert the contents of the clipboard in the appropriate case.

There is a way, but it is program dependent.

For example, in Microsoft Word and some other program you can use Shift+F3 to cycle between UPPERCASE, lowercase and Sentence case.

But, as aforementioned, this is program specific and not universal.

I too have wanted this for ages as I do something similar on my Mac with WordService. I managed to get AutoHotkey to work - it's free and you can download the program as a zip file rather than having to run an installer, which is handy for those of us who don't have admin rights.

I created the following .ahk text file:

^+u::
; Convert selected text to uppercase.
; This actually runs regardless of whether some text is selected or not,
; with varying results. A better version would check for text being selected
; before doing anything, if that is possible. oCB := ClipboardAll ; save clipboard contents Send, ^c ; Send Ctrl+C to copy whatever is currently selected ClipWait,1 ; Improves reliability s:=Format("{:U}",ClipBoard) ; Convert to uppercase, save in 's' var ClipBoard := oCB ; return original Clipboard contents Send, %s% ; Send the contents of the 's' var
return

...which I then activate by running the file with AutoHotkeyU64.exe. I can then select some text and press Ctrl+Shift+U to convert to uppercase.

It's a bit clunky - you see the characters being pasted back one by one, and thus an Undo undoes every character individually, and it runs regardless of whether you actually have text selected or not. But it's still better than having to delete the word(s) and retype them in uppercase.

Yes, sometimes -- In Windows 10 [ugh] WordPad, I can toggle upper/lower by highlighting the text, then clicking CTL+SHFT+A - hey, it's worth a try. -- If I type "Name" and want it all caps, I select the entire thing - and it's "NAME". -- If I accidentally typed "name", likewise it becomes "NAME". -- Of interest was, if I did "Name" to "NAME" and then decided to go back, it would go back to "Name" not "name", so what you select to toggle could be important down the line.