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Posted on 08/02/2010 under Computing
morehawesCommand ('Apple Key') + Shift + Y
Windows :
Ctrl + Shift + YThis will put the text back to sentence case or lower case (whatever it should be before it was being forced into all caps)
Thanks so much….an easy fix for a BIG problem
Thank you! Solved my problem. Many thanks for your blog š¤
Just another person saying thank you for this solution! It made a really annoying problem disappear in a second. Thanks! š
Eureka! Thanks so much for this easy and faithful fix!
You are an angel! Even Adobe chat could not help me figure this out!
your the man. worked great. I just highlighted the letters I wanted back lowercase and hit command shift y and it changed them back. !!!!!
Such a big help. I am new to elements and had no idea what was going on. I found youtube videos on how to correct this in regular photoshop, but nothing for elements! This was a big help!
Saved me a second time… thank you!
Thank YOU!!! This is the only thing that worked after trying all else. How did I not find this first! š
I know this is an ancient post, but I should show gratitude where gratitude is due: THANK YOU FOR THIS SOLUTION! I was in minor despair and all the solutions online seemed like too much work. You saved my flyer!
Thank you SO MUCH for this tip. It worked on pse 2021…can you tell my why it happens?
I am so gratefull – Thanks a lot for that important hint!!!
Thank you (from a fellow BC’er)!! This has been frustrating me for weeks and I have been copying old text into new documents and editing it. I finally searched for a solution and your post came up.
LIFESAVER!!! THANK YOU!
perfect.
it worked!!!!
why can’t the adobe help say this
and why isn’t it a click button option, more to the point I can select this on the keyboard, why do they even have it!!!
thanks
Great, thanks! This did solve my problem. Is there also a shortcut to enable this on purpose? So the opposite outcome of this.
THANK YOU!!!!!
Thank you so much for this tip. It worked like a charm.
Instant fix! I don’t know why this isn’t the first fix on Adobe support!! Resetting doesn’t work, resetting the text tool in the non-existent “pop-up” doesn’t work. THANK YOU.
Thanks for this helpful tip! I stumbled across your website searching for a solution to the all caps problem and was suprised to find an answer from another Hawes. Ours is not a super common surname; I’m sure we’re related somehow!
I’m glad you found it helpful and it’s always nice to hear from another Hawes! š
Joe
OMG. All of a sudden my PSE decided to not cooperate with me today. Every font was stuck in CAPS too. After a few minutes of searching this solved my problem. Forever grateful. PSE noob here.
Thanks! This solved it for me!
Still, it would be nice to know where in the menu I can find this setting. I have Adobe Photoshop Elements 2019.
Brilliant! thanks – had the same problem with InDesign for days!
I know this is an old thread but after about three days of getting answers from so called experts and expert sites that did absolutely nothing to fix this issue for me. I am so very grateful for an answer that actually helped to correct something driving me crazy for months.
Your solution worked without any fuss whatsoever. Thank you thank you thank you. Windows 10.
I have the same problem today but on Indesign and tried your solution. It works! Thanks a million.
Worked fine for me. Thanks so much.
Can’t believe this wasn’t in Adobe help screen. I searched for Lower Case, Text Lower Case and couldn’t get answer.
I am repeating what others have said , I too am grateful for your easy solution. Thanks again.
Not working on mine. I’ll just add text w/ Paint. #painttotherescueagain
Holy crap! Thank you! All the other fixes didn’t work at all. Saving this post just in case it happens again.
Thanks very much!
TY so much! PSE has so many glitches it drives me a little insane and you have saved me from getting super frustrated!
Mahalo!!! This was driving me crazy to the point that I was typing text in Word and then inserting a .jpeg of it into Photoshop- ha!
Worked perfectly!
Cheers Pal
Finally a normal answer that doesn’t involve deleting random files!
Big thanks for this, saved a lot of time and frustration. Couldn’t work out why such a simple issue was being so difficult to resolve! :-O
Eight years later and the problem still exists in Photoshop CC release 19.
Thanks for this post!! The problem was making me nuts, too.
THANK you from 8 years ago, you saved my sanity!
Thank you so much! This issue has been frustrating me for 2 days! I had searched everywhere to find an answer!
The best solution ever! I really don’t understand how PSE doesn’t include the option to activate/deactivate ALL CAPS, it is really frustrating. Thank you for posting this! š
Thank you so much! I have been trying to fix this for about an hour with no luck! Everyone said to reset the tool, but that didn’t resolve the issue. Your solution worked!! Now if only I knew why it got stuck on caps in the first place…
Just wanna say a massive THANK YOU – this was driving me NUTS and worked great for my pshop elements 13 for mac
Thank you so much! I have been trying to figure this out for some time. Did exactly what you said, on my MAC, and it worked!!!
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I’ve been battling this issue for a few months now and this finally worked!
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Your solution worked. I have tried solutions for over an hour; of which most wanted me to do the same thing that wasn’t working. Yours did! (even the Adobe site didn’t help)
Found this in a search, and it worked. Thanks so much!
Thank you so much! The solution other people offered didn’t work, plus it had so many steps including getting out of editor.
Thank you so much! I’ve just spent hours figuring out what I have done wrong and how to fix my all Capital letters for no apparent reason….only your advise really worked! So happy!
Omg thank you so much!! I was breaking my head why everything is only coming out uppercase and it was driving me crazy. This is such a quick and simple solution. I really thank you for this post!
My Photoshop elements has done the “all caps” thing several times over the years but most of the time I just uninstall and re install and it corrects itself. Not this time. It’s been over 4 months. So I found your fix, and tried Control Shift Y, but it didn’t work. When exactly do you push those keys? Like, when I’ve got a text cursor ready? Or at start up? Sorry, I need more specifics. Thanks for your help!
I think you have to press the keys when you are editing the text. So you have to open the text layer and edit it, and then press the keys. But the are some fonts that are only capital letters, so it won’t work with those.
I just highlighted all my three paragraphs — which we in caps – and did the command shift Y and it worked like magic!
I, too, was going nuts because I could see no reason for the type to be all cap. As far as I know, I didn’t do anything to cause that. I’m glad you have a simple solution. Thank you so much!