How can I convert uppercase letters to lowercase in Notepad++

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I use Notepad ++ for coding mostly.

How can I convert capital letters to lowercase and vice versa?

jalynn2 · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-03T20:37:22.980

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Just select the text you want to change, right click and select UPPERCASE or lowercase depending on what you want.

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answered Jul 26 '13 at 11:03

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I look at this and want to change the capital of each word (making the first letter of each word capital). Can notepad++ do that? – suhao399 May 17 '16 at 09:34
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@LucVu: This is called Title Case, Notepad++ calls it Proper Case and the answer is here: http://superuser.com/questions/115432/converting-text-to-title-case-in-notepad – Erlend Leganger Jun 10 '16 at 07:00
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You can also use `Ctrl+Shift+U` for UPPERCASE and `Ctrl+U` for lowercase if you like shortcut keys. – bobasti Oct 10 '16 at 12:42
Just an FYI: If you are using Visual Studio 2015 these shortcuts work directly in the code editor. – Vishweshwar Kapse Dec 11 '16 at 11:25
This doesn't work for me (Notepad++ v6.2.3 on Windows 7). Only the `Ctrl+Shift+U`/`Ctrl+U` or [SQL_Novice's answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/36546699/6689867) work. – CarLaTeX Jan 04 '19 at 15:07

score 160 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 28 '15 at 15:32

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Ctrl+A , Ctrl+Shift+U

should do the trick!

Edit: Ctrl+U is the shortcut to be used to convert capital letters to lowercase (reverse scenario)

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answered Jul 26 '13 at 11:04

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Ctrl+U for convert back to small letters – pramodc84 Nov 03 '13 at 11:26
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CTRL+A is select all. – Devolus Oct 26 '16 at 13:28

score 60 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 20 '14 at 11:52

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First select the text
To convert lowercase to uppercase, press Ctrl+Shift+U
To convert uppercase to lowercase, press Ctrl+U

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answered Dec 30 '13 at 05:48

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score 21 · Answer 4 · edited Jul 08 '23 at 01:00

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In my notepad++ I press

Ctrl+A = To select all words

Ctrl+U = To convert lowercase

Ctrl+Shift+U = To convert uppercase

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score 4 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 11 '16 at 10:55

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You could also, higlight the text you want to change, then navigate to - 'Edit' > 'Convert Case to' choose UPPERCASE or lowercase (as required).

answered Apr 11 '16 at 10:55

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score 3 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 07 '16 at 18:01

I had to transfer texts from an Excel file to an xliff file. We had some texts that were originally in uppercase but those translators didn't use uppercase so I used notepad++ as intermediate to do the conversion.

Since I had the mouse in one hand (to mark in Excel and activate the different windows) I disliked the predefined shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+U) as "U" is too far away for my left hand. I first switched it to Ctrl+Shift+X which worked.

Then I realized, that you can create macros easily, so I recorded one doing:

mark all
paste from clipboard
convert to upppercase
copy to clipboard

That macro got assigned that very shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+X) and made my life easy :)

How can I convert uppercase letters to lowercase in Notepad++

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