MS Word: How to Make All Caps?

I was asked yesterday how to turn a whole paragraph of text in Microsoft Word to all caps. Here’s how you do it.

Let’s say you have a paragraph of text like so:

Sample “Lorem ipsum” text written in Word.

1. Select all the text you want to change.
2. Right-click the text and select “Font” from the pop-up menu.

Pop-up menu when text is highlighted. “Font” is selected from the menu.

The Font formatting menu screen displays.

3. Select the “All caps” check box in the “Effects” grouping.
Notice that in the Preview window, our text is now in all upper case or capital letters.

MS Word Font formatting window with “All caps” selected.

4. Click the “OK” button.
Your original text displays in all uppercase or capital letters.

Sample “Lorem ipsum” text written in Word, now in all capital letters.

Other common uses of this: strikethrough all text; set superscript like with 1^st, 2^nd, or 3^rd; set subscript to create molecular formulas like H₂O.