PSE "stuck" in all-caps?

i am on Cs5 but, check in your character palette, and see if there is a pull down menu, little arrow, and see if all caps is checked?

 

@Aerobigirl or try ctrl + shift + Y or on mac command + shift + Y

here is another video if that doesn't work:

 

It happens when you use a template that has the all caps for the type tool selected. I'm not sure about your version, but I know when I was using an old version, I could not change it from the type menu box. Like Anne said above- use the shortcut keys & if that doesn't work- then open an template that you KNOW has 'normal' font options & that should reset it.

 

Yes I had that happen.
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I googled and found this:
Getting Text Back From All Caps In Photoshop Elements (Not CAPS LOCK!)
February 8, 2010Computing58 Comments

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)

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Try this depending on your operating system and see if that fixes it. Let me know and if if doesn't fix it, I will keep looking.

oops I see Anne @AnneofAlamo gave you that solution. Let us know.

 

winner winner chicken dinner! yeah...and @amien1 is most correct. If you open a template that had caps for journaling or TITLE it will toggle your caps back on.

 

There was another text issue someone had in PSE, and opening a template where the text was right fixed that one too! So it's a great solution to keep in your back pocket!

 

I must have had one of those templates/things because I had this glitch this week also. Ugh. I'm gonna screenshot that bit @cfile shared and keep it in my Tutorials folder. All I have to do is remember to look there!

 

What?? You don't want to be YELLING your journaling?? LOL Glad there was a fix. I would have been going bonkers too!

 

I’ve never encountered this but great to know for future reference. Pinned!

 

THANK YOU FOR THIS!!
(yes, I meant the all caps!!)

I've had this happen to me before and it's so very frustrating. Such good information to have!

 

@Aerobigirl you can always ask again! we love feeling helpful! lol

 

You are very welcome Carrie@

 

Yes, you can bookmark the thread in your browser and/or you can select watch thread on the top right of this thread.
So glad you got it figured out. I love shortcuts but had never heard of this one.

 

Came across this thread a week ago but didn't respond because I didn't have an answer to the problem. Well, guess what? Went to do a layout this morning and all my fonts were in caps!!!! AAAAHHHHGGGGG!!! Then I remembered this thread!! Thank you so much for the Ctrl-Shift-Y!!!! It worked!!!

 

So glad to know this- I have been "resetting" the tool over and over and it keeps going back. Had no idea that it could be due to a template. NOW we know ...