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Capital solution for cAPS riddle
Sometimes we just put something in to check if you actually did your Microsoft Word training module, and the good news is that at least 100 of you did.
Which, if you divide it into the total readership of Computing, is a pretty good success rate.
The story so far: last week we were prompted to ask whether Microsoft could provide software to help people who accidentally turned on the cAPS lOCK key. And sure enough, it does.
‘As Microsoft Word shows us in a screen shot: “Correct the accidental usage of cAPS LOCK key”,’ says Charles Etchells at ProjectMandate, whose name was chosen at random from all of you who emailed us.
‘When the check box is ticked not only does the incorrect capitalisation get corrected automatically, but the caps key is also turned off for you. Service or what?’
Jon Ley at CMi suggests: ‘Try turning the caps lock on and then start typing. As soon as you get past the first word, Word automatically corrects the case of this word and turns the caps lock off for you.’
Oh, by the way, it is also in all the Microsoft Office 2007 applications, thus rendering the cAPS lOCK key as the PC equivalent of the appendix.
And so, none too soon, we close the correspondence on this subject, as we have belatedly decided we have far more important things to worry about.
Great idea, it's so aggravating to look-up at the screen and seen that you've tYPED a fEW pARAGRAPHS iNCORRECTLY.
I wonder how long it'll take for this kind of feature migrate to other programs.... especially online email provides like gmail. I do this all the time.
Posted by :CaptainG | May 13, 2007 9:19 PM