Getting Text Back From All Caps In Photoshop Elements (Not CAPS LOCK!)

Posted on 08/02/2010 under Computing

After getting rather confused as to why my text layer in Photoshop Elements 6 would not budge from being in all caps (no not because of CAPS LOCK!) I discovered that to get it back to normal you need to do : Mac : 
Command ('Apple Key') + Shift + Y
Windows : 
Ctrl + Shift + Y
This will put the text back to sentence case or lower case (whatever it should be before it was being forced into all caps)

109 thoughts on "Getting Text Back From All Caps In Photoshop Elements (Not CAPS LOCK!)"

  1. MITHUN SREEVALLABHAN says:
    August 14, 2017 at 10:08 am

    THANK YOU VERY MUCH..i was going through all these idiotic ideas suggested by mac users… you just made it easy….

  2. Ducheznee says:
    July 31, 2017 at 5:44 pm

    Awesome! Wish I’d found this first before trying all of the fruitless reset/reinstall suggestions from other sites.

  3. Marilyn says:
    June 28, 2017 at 2:27 pm

    Thank You!!!!

  4. Elle says:
    June 12, 2017 at 1:02 pm

    Thank you so much!

  5. CrimsonCrow says:
    May 13, 2017 at 8:06 am

    Oh, my! I was This || close to uninstalling/re-installing Adobe Photoshop Elements 15 and restoring standard fonts via Font Book.
    Glad I did a search and extremely appreciative that you had the answer!

  6. Daland says:
    April 28, 2017 at 8:45 am

    I was about to throw my keyboard across the room until I came accross your post! #sohelpful

  7. Prosenjit Manna says:
    April 20, 2017 at 6:26 am

    Thank you very much….

  8. LP says:
    April 10, 2017 at 9:32 pm

    !I am so thrilled – thank you so much for this fix!

  9. Daryl says:
    April 3, 2017 at 10:52 am

    The smallest things can drive a man insain.. LOL. I feel a total fool, but much appreciated.. IT WOOOOOOOORED. Ye Ha..

  10. Stacey says:
    March 16, 2017 at 12:09 pm

    You have no idea all the trouble you saved me, thank you so much!

  11. Srinivasan Devrajan says:
    March 9, 2017 at 12:22 am

    Thanks. Joe

    Much appreciate the tip. Cheers Srinivasan Devrajan

  12. dp says:
    February 17, 2017 at 7:54 am

    YOU BEAUTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

  13. Nerissa Lowe says:
    January 23, 2017 at 5:31 pm

    THANK YOU!!!

  14. Steph Sterner says:
    January 18, 2017 at 3:05 am

    Thanks so much!

  15. Tabi says:
    January 14, 2017 at 7:43 pm

    THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! No other suggestions worked. I’ve been banging my head against the wall. Saved this for future!

  16. Suzanne says:
    December 18, 2016 at 6:55 am

    Thank you!!

  17. Jacquie says:
    December 7, 2016 at 9:43 pm

    Never had this happen before…ever. Couldn’t figure out what I was doing wrong. Thank you for your simple clear fix to the problem!

  18. KB says:
    November 21, 2016 at 9:04 am

    Thank you so so much. I do love that I can search and some genius has figured it out. Thank you geniuses.

  19. david says:
    November 15, 2016 at 4:35 am

    Yeaah this is it!

  20. Stephanie says:
    October 26, 2016 at 7:17 am

    Thank you!!!!!!

  21. Matt says:
    July 27, 2016 at 3:24 am

    This has bugged me for SOOO long – thank you very much…

  22. Bee says:
    July 22, 2016 at 7:23 am

    Thank you SO much for this!!!

  23. Deborah says:
    June 15, 2016 at 9:35 am

    I have never been so grateful to someone I don’t know!! Thanks traveling, running, bear drinking, web developing Joe!!

  24. Faith says:
    June 9, 2016 at 5:19 pm

    You are a life saver!! Man, the strange idiosyncrasies of some programs!! I thought for sure there was a glitch on my computer or with the entire system. So strange! Thanks for the quick solution.

  25. Alisha says:
    May 10, 2016 at 4:24 pm

    I have been trying to update my resume and was getting so frustrated in PS. Thank you so much for saving me time and frustration!!!

  26. Shira says:
    April 20, 2016 at 12:19 pm

    I love you! I couldn’t figure this out and you just saved my day. Thanks!

  27. Robin says:
    April 3, 2016 at 10:09 pm

    Thank you <3 I've had this happen before, but I could not for the life of me remember how I fixed it. Bookmarking this page to be sure!!

  28. Rachel E. says:
    February 11, 2016 at 9:01 am

    You just saved the day with this fix you posted years ago. Thanks!

  29. Daisy says:
    January 3, 2016 at 4:44 pm

    I do not have an (apple) key so I used the command key instead and that worked. Thank you! I’ve been using all caps for 14months now, I can’t believe I didn’t search for the solution sooner!

  30. Eric Nagel says:
    December 17, 2015 at 6:15 am

    Thanks! I don’t know what option this changed, but it worked!

  31. NumberOne says:
    December 14, 2015 at 3:27 pm

    Now I can finally stop freaking out … funny how Elements is the dumbed down version of PS yet you have to jump through hoops for such a simple operation.

  32. Craig Adams says:
    October 29, 2015 at 12:40 pm

    Wow. its taken me about 40 minutes to get this answer. Si simple too. Thanks a lot! 🙂

  33. Shar says:
    October 22, 2015 at 10:06 am

    Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! After reading dozens of ‘fixes’; I found yours to be the only one that has actually worked.

  34. Jonathan Acabo says:
    October 7, 2015 at 5:09 am

    Yes, it works… thank you.

  35. Alyssa Posk says:
    August 8, 2015 at 8:38 pm

    Great fix, thank you so much! I was so confused as to why this was happening and how I could fix it–photoshop is so strange sometimes!

  36. Peggy S says:
    July 6, 2015 at 4:22 pm

    Oh my gosh, thank you so much! I was going nuts! I guess I have lots of company. You think Adobe will see this and fix it? I use PSE12.

  37. Antwan Floyd Sr. says:
    June 20, 2015 at 5:06 am

    thanks I appreciate it

  38. Colleen Kelly says:
    May 12, 2015 at 5:44 pm

    Thank you! Do you know how long I have tried to fix this ?! LOL Thank you!!! 🙂 #Genius 😀

  39. Tais says:
    May 5, 2015 at 9:23 am

    You clearly just save my life! Thank you!

  40. Lorene says:
    April 23, 2015 at 1:04 pm

    Thank you for ending the frustration. Nothing else was working!

  41. Charlotte says:
    April 23, 2015 at 3:44 am

    Thank you so much! Literally made my morning!

  42. Philip says:
    April 14, 2015 at 6:59 am

    Likewise, my thanks for this simple but elusive fix!

  43. Krzysztof says:
    April 1, 2015 at 6:35 am

    You are God! Thanks for that!

  44. jamie says:
    March 25, 2015 at 6:22 am

    I’m so grateful for your post this morning. I have no idea how I made everything all caps, but at least now I know how to fix it. Thanks for saving me a lot of frustration!

  45. Jerry says:
    March 23, 2015 at 1:02 pm

    Thank you for this. A post in the Adobe Photoshop Elements forum linked here. No other solution worked.

  46. Denise says:
    March 12, 2015 at 8:38 am

    Thank you so much! I couldn’t figure out what was wrong. Your fix was so simple but not intuitive.

  47. Arlene says:
    December 13, 2014 at 11:20 am

    Great easy fix! Thank you.

  48. Linz says:
    November 10, 2014 at 5:32 am

    Thank you! I was getting desperate and the help on the site didn’t do the trick!

  49. Sarah Chesebrough says:
    April 23, 2013 at 12:03 pm

    Thank you! This was an easy fix…much easier than the other fixes that I tried (which didn’t work). I wrote it down for future use and bookmarked your site.

  50. AJ Parker says:
    December 9, 2012 at 12:43 pm

    Worked! Thank you, I was going nuts trying to figure out why all of my text was upper-case even though caps lock was off!