Today’s blog is the equivalent of a Certified Legal Nurse Consulting quickie. In between preparing documents and PowerPoint® slides for the NACLNC® Conference Cruise I’m packing and trying to figure out how to stuff all my stuff into one rolling suitcase (or not). So, rather than drone on and on, here is one quick Microsoft® Office® tip I learned this week.
All CLNC® consultants know that UPPER CASE TYPING IN AN EMAIL IS THE EQUIVALENT OF SHOUTING but sometimes I also have to correct it on NACLNC® Conference PowerPoint® slides, where apparently PEOPLE FEEL THE NEED TO SHOUT. To remedy this, I need to change that upper case text to sentence case.
I used to highlight the text with my mouse and then select the “Change Case” button on Word’s “Font” bar but that’s so old school, and there’s a faster way. I assume you know that left clicking twice on a word will select that word and left-clicking three times on a word will select a sentence (or paragraph). So rapidly select or highlight the text you need to convert and then hold down your <Shift> key and hit <F3>. The first time you do this it will change upper case into all lower case, do it again and it’ll put everything into title case (sometimes) and one more time will go back to upper case. This works in Word, PowerPoint and is especially powerful in Outlook because you can quickly change that SHOUTING email into a normal, friendly communication.
That’s it for this week my CLNC® amigos. Next week I’m graciously donating my Tuesday Tech Tip slot to Vickie who’s going to blog live from the NACLNC® Conference Cruise. I’ll see you on the 22nd!
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