Word 2007 one of lime and the other of sand (*)

TRANSLATION NOTE: Please read the comments at the end of the post to clarify the real meaning of some terms.

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Word 2007 and its ribbon, like AutoCAD’s left for us some things out of control in the moments we have to hurry.

The problem

I was looking to convert lowercase to uppercase text, which was previously a click of the menu. No idea where it is, and if there was not patient enough, so I started to try combinations of keys, shift, ctrl, alt, and the functions F2, F4, etc..

I was looking for how to convert lowercase to uppercase text, which was previously a click of the menu. I don’t have the least idea where it is, and if it’s there I haven’t so enough patience, so I started to try keys’ combinations like shift, ctrl, alt, and the functions F2, F4, etc…

Finally (very late) someone blew me the command was Shift + F3.

You select the text, then Shift + F3, and at first text is only shown with the first letters capitalized:

If you apply again Shift + F3 it becomes uppercase everything:

The other problem

Without realizing which key was, it become activated some strange bracketed characters in the images, hyperlinks, footnotes, bold … nothing was the same; it only brought me the memory of what we did in the blue screen of Word Perfect.

This happens because the field codes were activated. It should be seen the suffering I went through, because even though I tried with everything and my sublime egeomate (Spanish Idiom: “geofumada sublime”, in this case means all of the most complicated processes someone could imagine) knowledge, it was impossible until I looked for an Internet connection.

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TRANSLATION NOTE:

One of lime and the other of sand: A textual translation of a very popular Spanish saying: “unas de cal y otras de arena” which means that when we are in a situation not everything’s passes jus as we hope to.