You’re quoting the Bible in your book and many of the verses use LORD in small caps. But you don’t know how to get those little capitals so you type LORD in your manuscript.
Or maybe you missed the fact completely that Lord was in all caps. I see that often in the nonfiction manuscripts I edit.
If you fail to use all caps, you are misquoting the verse. Lord and LORD represent different Hebrew words.
Microsoft Word is a great word processing tool. It is intuitive and provides shortcuts for many functions, saving time and effort on the part of its users. With a quick keyboard trick, I will show you how to quickly change small letters to capital letters in word. Using the Taskbar To create small caps font, type the text first. Be sure the first letter of the text is capitalized. Highlight the section of text to be changed to small caps.
If you’ve made this mistake, don’t worry. Creating them is simple, both in MS Word and in Scrivener (but not on the web!).
To view a video on creating small caps visit my YouTube channel.
Small Caps in MS Word
Highlight the word/s you need in capitals.
On the Home Tab, click on the down arrow in the bottom right corner of the Font Box.
This opens the Font Dialog Box.
Under the Effects section (about halfway down), select Small Caps.
It’s that simple. You can also access the Font Dialog Box with a right click of your mouse after you’ve selected your word. When the sub-menu appears, select Font and the Font Dialog Box opens.
Small Caps in Scrivener
Highlight the word/s you need.
Select Format menu at the top left of the screen. Then select Font → Small Caps. Or you can also right click your mouse to bring up the sub-menu and make the same selection.
This might be something you don’t give much thought, but using small caps gives your manuscript a professional appearance. And as I stated earlier, when quoting material, you must format it in the same way it appears in your source.
Dragon automatically capitalizes most words when appropriate. For example, Dragon recognizes and automatically capitalizes the first word in a sentence, most names and places, and many acronyms.
If you need to make adjustments to the capitalization, use these commands.
Small Caps In Word 2007
Title CaseTo capitalize a word as you dictate
To capitalize the next string of words as you dictate
To capitalize words you have already dictated
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LowercaseTo lowercase a word as you dictate
To lowercase the next string of words as you dictate
To lowercase text you have already dictated
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All CapsTo make a word ALL-CAPS as you dictate
To make the next string of words all-caps as you dictate
To make text you have already dictated all-caps
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