Or select the text in All Caps and click the Clear Formatting command, which is top-right in the Font group on the Home tab (the image shows the characters “Aa” with something that might be an eraser). Selecting the text and pressing CTRL-SHFT-A again fixes it by turning All Caps off. File > Save As and select Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP from the Save as type dropdown menu. If is is Word then you need to have saved it in Word format, so that Word can understand it. If it is OOo then you dont need to do anything. I probably meant to hit CTRL-A (Select All), and if I accidentally hit CTRL-A before CTRL-SHFT-A, my entire document is suddenly UPPERCASE. Collaborate better with co-authoring in Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and Microsoft OneNote 2010, and advanced e-mail management and calendaring capabilities in Microsoft Outlook. If they want to open it and edit it, then you need toknow what they are going to open it with. Apparently when this happens, I’ve accidentally hit CTRL-SHFT-A (or maybe CTRL-ALT-A depending on the version of Word?). This finally annoyed me enough that I did some research and found. Microsoft should disable the relevant keyboard shortcuts used by an impossible fraction of its userbase. This blog post has more than 120,000 views. If this does work, I would suggest renaming your normal templates and seeing if that fixes the problem.
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In settings, search for toggle keys and configure Windows to play a sound when you press Caps lock. This is not a fix but it will get Word to work at least.
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Update 2.Apr.2021: Relevant Microsoft Office Word 365 keyboard shortcuts: In this video I tell you how to fix your Microsoft Office Starter 2010 software when it won't allow you to open your Word or Excel Documents. Here you will find all the file versions that Word can open and/or save. Click File Block Settings in the left column. Open Word, click File, click Options, click Trust Center in the left column, then click Trust Center Settings in the right pane. File versions that are checked are blocked. Closing Word and opening the document again does not fix the problem. Check the File Block Settings in Trust Center for Word. Other Windows applications and the light on the keyboard show that Caps Lock is actually off. Every once in a while, I find that Microsoft Word seems to think that Caps Lock is on, and everything I type appears in UPPERCASE.