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Capitalization Button

Category: Peripherals
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A button on word processor programs or on a keyboard that lets you turn all letters into capitals and reverse. What I’m thinking is that the reverse – allowing your text to uncapitalize, would be a time saver. Because of overuse, my Shift button on all the keyboards that I use eventually dies out.

What happens is that often I will be typing something that I’m not looking at – copying from print text, for example. When I look up at the screen a line or more can be entirely capitalized. I know that this happens often enough to me – there must be millions of users out there where this happens to them. To be able to select the text, press a button and reverse the capitalization, would be far more effective and time-saving then erasing the text and typing it again.

Perhaps the Caps Lock button could be a cap/uncap button. It’s essentially a waste of time right now – shift + the letter you want capitalized is what I, and I’m assuming billions of people, use. Far easier that Caps Lock, the letter, then Caps Lock again.

shayn, Jun 13 2007

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Caps lock - as the name says - is designed to use when you want to write whole sentences in capital, to avoid pressing shift down long time... not for writing the sentence starter letters. And about the line entirely capitalized, does it happen because the shift key stucks, or you press the caps lock accidently? Because if the first option is the problem (stucked key) I don't think that they should insert an extra button for a problem that occurs if the keyboard already gone wrong.

Pinkypearl, Jun 18 2007