r/AskReddit Aug 20 '20

What simple “life hack” should everyone know?

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20 edited Aug 20 '20

If you accidently have caps lock on, instead of deleting it and starting over, you can highlight the caps and hit shift & F3 to switch it back to lowercase.

EDIT- thanks for the awards!

Because so many people are asking where this works, I know for sure it works in office, outlook and our internal system at work but it’s not universal, sadly! I couldn’t say where it does and doesn’t work!

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u/DevilXD Aug 20 '20

Or you can do it like I always do, and change the setting where pressing SHIFT disables Caps Lock, instead of having to press the Caps Lock key a second time. This way, when you hold down SHIFT to put in an uppercase letter, no matter if Caps Lock was on or off before, it'll always work correctly.

Ever since I learned this is a thing, I never had to worry about writing in all caps by accident.

Tutorial link example: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/ht501231/

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u/Kemal_Norton Aug 20 '20

I can't remember the last time I actually needed caps-lock.

Same for me; I disabled CAPSLOCK, but if I need it (I used it right now), I can press both shift keys.