

Now while leaving the document selected, Ctrl+click on the text box to unselect it. Once you click on Restrict Editing, the Restrict Editing pane will appear.įirst, press Ctrl+A to select the entire document, even if there isn’t much text yet. If the Restrict Editing option does not appear, you may have to enable the display of the Developer tab. On the Review tab click on Restrict Editing. If, on the other hand, you want to lock the box and the text inside of it you can use the Restrict Editing feature. The text box remains locked where it was on the page. See the difference when the paragraph is moved down. In this example, I unselect Move object with text, but leave Lock anchor selected. With these two options selected, this is what happens with my text box when I add more text to the preceding paragraphs. On the Position tab there are two settings at the bottom: Move object with text and Lock anchor. Unlike the Caps Lock key, which applies to all keystrokes, font styles apply to the text for which the style is enabled, which remains after closing the document.If by “lock” you mean to lock the position so that your text box moves with the text, you do that with the Text Wrapping dialog box. Or select the text in All Caps and click the Clear Formatting command, which is top-right in the Font group on the Home tab (the image shows the characters “Aa” with something that might be an eraser). Selecting the text and pressing CTRL-SHFT-A again fixes it by turning All Caps off. I probably meant to hit CTRL-A (Select All), and if I accidentally hit CTRL-A before CTRL-SHFT-A, my entire document is suddenly UPPERCASE. Apparently when this happens, I’ve accidentally hit CTRL-SHFT-A (or maybe CTRL-ALT-A depending on the version of Word?).

This finally annoyed me enough that I did some research and found.

Microsoft should disable the relevant keyboard shortcuts used by an impossible fraction of its userbase. This blog post has more than 120,000 views. In settings, search for toggle keys and configure Windows to play a sound when you press Caps lock. Ctrl+Alt+V,Down,Enter: Paste special ( unformatted, see also ).Ctrl+Shift+N: Clear paragraph formatting.Update 2.Apr.2021: Relevant Microsoft Office Word 365 keyboard shortcuts:

Closing Word and opening the document again does not fix the problem. Other Windows applications and the light on the keyboard show that Caps Lock is actually off. Every once in a while, I find that Microsoft Word seems to think that Caps Lock is on, and everything I type appears in UPPERCASE.
