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  • C c2423

    The Bhai wrote:

    *I know some clever bugger is going to make me look stupid by telling me an easy way to do this.

    Indeed there is a way - if it's MS Office based there's a change case option on the Format Text menu.

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    The Bhai
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    Google mail.

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      Google mail.

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      c2423
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      Copy and paste it into Office, swap case, copy back. Admittedly not quite as easy as I was going for, but still not as bad as rewriting.

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        Got fed up of writing long e-mails only to look-up when I finished typing to see that I had typed half of it in capitals and had to delete it all. (Why can't you just select all of it and de-capitalise it like you can change fonts etc*) So I've ripped my Caps-lock button out and binned it and I feel much better for it, I suggest you do the same. Just debating whether to remove the # button now as I keep pressing that a mini-second before I press return and I do a lot of command line Linux, but obviously I will miss it for comments. *I know some clever bugger is going to make me look stupid by telling me an easy way to do this.

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        Um. It's not that difficult, really. There is a web site that does it for you pretty well: http://www.convertcase.net/[^]

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        • T The Bhai

          Got fed up of writing long e-mails only to look-up when I finished typing to see that I had typed half of it in capitals and had to delete it all. (Why can't you just select all of it and de-capitalise it like you can change fonts etc*) So I've ripped my Caps-lock button out and binned it and I feel much better for it, I suggest you do the same. Just debating whether to remove the # button now as I keep pressing that a mini-second before I press return and I do a lot of command line Linux, but obviously I will miss it for comments. *I know some clever bugger is going to make me look stupid by telling me an easy way to do this.

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          Lost User
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          As Griff has said there is a site to fix things up, but I think your preventative solution is a fine one. I never, ever use my Caps Lock key, even when typing something that is all in capitals I just hold down the shift key with my little finger.

          “I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks

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            Got fed up of writing long e-mails only to look-up when I finished typing to see that I had typed half of it in capitals and had to delete it all. (Why can't you just select all of it and de-capitalise it like you can change fonts etc*) So I've ripped my Caps-lock button out and binned it and I feel much better for it, I suggest you do the same. Just debating whether to remove the # button now as I keep pressing that a mini-second before I press return and I do a lot of command line Linux, but obviously I will miss it for comments. *I know some clever bugger is going to make me look stupid by telling me an easy way to do this.

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            Lost User
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            You were asking about this a few months back. Been found guilty, him, his wife and their mate. There is a lot of stuff appearing on the BBC and a Panorama special on tonight. There is a lot more info to come out now the case has run.

            “I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks

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              Dave won't know, he thinks the Caps Lock button was invented before keyboards.

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              Caps Lock was invented by Romulan Engineers, as any fule kno'. Capitus Locus (Place Heads, cognate to our "Bang Head [against wall]"

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              • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                Um. It's not that difficult, really. There is a web site that does it for you pretty well: http://www.convertcase.net/[^]

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                Yeah that's good but still means I need to open a new tab, got to that tab, and then go back to the mail tab. It's the last bit I find difficult as I look at the tabs for the mail tab but end up noticing the codeproject tab or something similar and distract myself and don't return to the e-mail for at least half an hour. Would be much better if it was a feature inside Gmail.

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                  You were asking about this a few months back. Been found guilty, him, his wife and their mate. There is a lot of stuff appearing on the BBC and a Panorama special on tonight. There is a lot more info to come out now the case has run.

                  “I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks

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                  The Bhai
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                  Thanks for that. Haven't been on the News sites all day but will have a look now, I will definitely watch the Panorama as well.

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                    You were asking about this a few months back. Been found guilty, him, his wife and their mate. There is a lot of stuff appearing on the BBC and a Panorama special on tonight. There is a lot more info to come out now the case has run.

                    “I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks

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                    Petrol on their clothing, petrol in the u-bend of the sink? Should have been six cases of murder, not manslaughter - those children never stood a chance. And he has the gall to kiss a cross for each of them in court and say "it's not over yet" when he is convicted. This would have to be in the soapbox to use the language I'd like to.

                    The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)

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                    "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                    • T The Bhai

                      Got fed up of writing long e-mails only to look-up when I finished typing to see that I had typed half of it in capitals and had to delete it all. (Why can't you just select all of it and de-capitalise it like you can change fonts etc*) So I've ripped my Caps-lock button out and binned it and I feel much better for it, I suggest you do the same. Just debating whether to remove the # button now as I keep pressing that a mini-second before I press return and I do a lot of command line Linux, but obviously I will miss it for comments. *I know some clever bugger is going to make me look stupid by telling me an easy way to do this.

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                      I FOLLOWED YOUR CLEVER ADVISE AD RIPED THE BUGGER OFF. OBVIOUSLY IT WAS IN ON POSITION WHEN REMOVED! WHAT I’M GONNA DO NOW?!? WHAT!? IM AFRAID TO LOG OFF!

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                        I FOLLOWED YOUR CLEVER ADVISE AD RIPED THE BUGGER OFF. OBVIOUSLY IT WAS IN ON POSITION WHEN REMOVED! WHAT I’M GONNA DO NOW?!? WHAT!? IM AFRAID TO LOG OFF!

                        There is only one Vera Farmiga and Salma Hayek is her prophet! Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.

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                        The Bhai
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                        You know that's exactly what I did. :doh: Had to sheepishly get the pen out and fix it.

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                          Got fed up of writing long e-mails only to look-up when I finished typing to see that I had typed half of it in capitals and had to delete it all. (Why can't you just select all of it and de-capitalise it like you can change fonts etc*) So I've ripped my Caps-lock button out and binned it and I feel much better for it, I suggest you do the same. Just debating whether to remove the # button now as I keep pressing that a mini-second before I press return and I do a lot of command line Linux, but obviously I will miss it for comments. *I know some clever bugger is going to make me look stupid by telling me an easy way to do this.

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                          The Bhai wrote:

                          only to look-up when I finished typing

                          Years ago, when I was 18 or so, I decided to force myself to learn to touch type, because I noticed I was doubling the time it took to type, then read what I had typed, and often enough, as you illustrate, having to correct my mistakes. It was well worth the effort and took only about a week or so of agonizing, especially since I also forced myself not to look down at the keyboard to find the backspace key and then the correct key I had meant to press. Perhaps it would be of benefit to learn to touch type? Marc

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                            You know that's exactly what I did. :doh: Had to sheepishly get the pen out and fix it.

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                            WHATSPEN?ITRIEDTOUSETHISLONGKEYONTHEBOTTOMINSTEADANDNOWITWONTFITSBACK!!!

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                              The Bhai wrote:

                              only to look-up when I finished typing

                              Years ago, when I was 18 or so, I decided to force myself to learn to touch type, because I noticed I was doubling the time it took to type, then read what I had typed, and often enough, as you illustrate, having to correct my mistakes. It was well worth the effort and took only about a week or so of agonizing, especially since I also forced myself not to look down at the keyboard to find the backspace key and then the correct key I had meant to press. Perhaps it would be of benefit to learn to touch type? Marc

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                              Marc Clifton wrote:

                              Years ago, when I was 18 or so

                              Marc Clifton wrote:

                              It was well worth the effort and took only about a week or so of agonizing

                              THIS IS THE PROBLEM – ADD ONE ADDITIONAL WEEK FOR EVERY YEAR OVER 18.

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                                Got fed up of writing long e-mails only to look-up when I finished typing to see that I had typed half of it in capitals and had to delete it all. (Why can't you just select all of it and de-capitalise it like you can change fonts etc*) So I've ripped my Caps-lock button out and binned it and I feel much better for it, I suggest you do the same. Just debating whether to remove the # button now as I keep pressing that a mini-second before I press return and I do a lot of command line Linux, but obviously I will miss it for comments. *I know some clever bugger is going to make me look stupid by telling me an easy way to do this.

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                                There's not a computer I use that doesn't have the caps lock key mapped to the control key. Although I'm an emacs guy, so I use the control key extensively.

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                                • M Marc Clifton

                                  The Bhai wrote:

                                  only to look-up when I finished typing

                                  Years ago, when I was 18 or so, I decided to force myself to learn to touch type, because I noticed I was doubling the time it took to type, then read what I had typed, and often enough, as you illustrate, having to correct my mistakes. It was well worth the effort and took only about a week or so of agonizing, especially since I also forced myself not to look down at the keyboard to find the backspace key and then the correct key I had meant to press. Perhaps it would be of benefit to learn to touch type? Marc

                                  Latest Article: C# and Ruby Classes: A Deep Dive
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                                  The Bhai
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                                  It is something I've always wanted to do and the people that sit either side of me are very fast typers (I'm hunt and peck) so I will definitely consider it. Did you just self-teach? I think my problem is that I was using the flat laptop keyboard and now I've gone to two screens with the laptop closed I have to use a raised keyboard as thats the one they gave me and it's the raised keys that are causing me problems. I could ask to see if they have a flat one but I'll only get that if my current keyboard is broken or has keys missing ........ ;)

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                                    Petrol on their clothing, petrol in the u-bend of the sink? Should have been six cases of murder, not manslaughter - those children never stood a chance. And he has the gall to kiss a cross for each of them in court and say "it's not over yet" when he is convicted. This would have to be in the soapbox to use the language I'd like to.

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                                    Feel free to start a thread over there and spleen your vent.

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                                      It is something I've always wanted to do and the people that sit either side of me are very fast typers (I'm hunt and peck) so I will definitely consider it. Did you just self-teach? I think my problem is that I was using the flat laptop keyboard and now I've gone to two screens with the laptop closed I have to use a raised keyboard as thats the one they gave me and it's the raised keys that are causing me problems. I could ask to see if they have a flat one but I'll only get that if my current keyboard is broken or has keys missing ........ ;)

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                                      Marc Clifton
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                                      The Bhai wrote:

                                      Did you just self-teach?

                                      I had taken a typing class in 6th grade, on an actual typewriter! So I knew about finger placement (which I largely ignore now) but it's a good start, should be lots of google images for that, but yes, it was all self-teaching when I was working on a Commodore "business machine", heeheee.

                                      The Bhai wrote:

                                      I have to use a raised keyboard

                                      I discovered that once I learned to touch type, I could stare at a keyboard for a minute, make note of the differences (usually the arrow keys, function key placement, etc) and start working productively with a new keyboard very quickly. I can now transition between laptop and desktop keyboards very quickly. Good luck! I think you will find it worth the initial pain! Marc

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                                        Feel free to start a thread over there and spleen your vent.

                                        I was brought up to respect my elders. I don't respect many people nowadays.
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                                        Was going to steal a line from Frankie Boyle about Paolo Di Canio for you along the lines of if you want to pursuade someone white people are not superior then Sunderland is the place to send them. But then I read through some of the detail of this arse-wipe from Derby and decided not to bother. Although I just did.

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                                        • T The Bhai

                                          Got fed up of writing long e-mails only to look-up when I finished typing to see that I had typed half of it in capitals and had to delete it all. (Why can't you just select all of it and de-capitalise it like you can change fonts etc*) So I've ripped my Caps-lock button out and binned it and I feel much better for it, I suggest you do the same. Just debating whether to remove the # button now as I keep pressing that a mini-second before I press return and I do a lot of command line Linux, but obviously I will miss it for comments. *I know some clever bugger is going to make me look stupid by telling me an easy way to do this.

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                                          Forogar
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                                          If you were using Windows you could put the following into a disable_caps_lock.reg file and run it:

                                          Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

                                          [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
                                          "Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00

                                          This makes the CAPS LOCK a null key.

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