What is the easiest way to change the CASE of existing text ?

In Word etc, SHIFT + F3 cycles thru all lower, upper, 1st only upper.

Depends on your context.

As I say, it depends on the program you're using as to what it supports and what hotkeys etc it responds to. Your keypresses are processed by a certain piece of software at any one time.

Somewhere there may be a covenient freeware program that might, say, allow you to select text, press a certain key, then the text is processed by the program so you can manipulate it in that program, then replaced in the original context.

As an example, I use a freeware program that, when you type or select a character, pressing a function key repeatedly cycles through one of many possible sets of accents for that character. (E.g. Norwegian, Chinese pinyin, French...) That works in pretty much any context.

See discussion (old) here:
Any freeware to change the case (capitalization) of clipboard text on the fly? - DonationCoder.com

The tiny program at the bottom actually allows you to select text, rt click its tray icon, then change the case in various ways.

With a bit of work, that Autohotkey script could be written to respond to a hot key and cycle selected text through those options.

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This script (below) pretty much works.
Select text, press ALT + u to cycle thu e.g.

Hello HELLO hello

and a popup displays the changed text.
Release ALT to save what's in the popup.

https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/7...ow-im-stumped/
See 4th example.

To run this, install Autohotkey (free).
Cut and paste the script into Casechange.txt, rename it to Casechange.ahk
Double click on Casechange.ahk

Select some text in Wordpad (e.g.) and try Alt + u.

For me this interacts with a program called Listary which also monitors the clipboard.

Note: this is not 'finished' programming and there are more links.

Here's a program that works. I've compiled this from one of the scripts posted there, so its an exe file (inside the zip). Just run it.

Then launch Notepad. type (e.g.)
it really works

Select 'it really works'
Then press ALTGr and m, and press m again to cycle thru the options.
Release ALTGr to have the text in the popup replace that in Notepad.
(AltGr = right Alt).

I've adapted the keys to avoid conflict with another program.

Case change.zip

ship69 doesn't want a file rename tool. He want sthg that works in a browser, Wordpad, Office, anywhere you type text.


and of course 'Hello'.

Works for sentences too.