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

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:

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

  2. Ducheznee says:

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

  3. Marilyn says:

    Thank You!!!!

  4. Elle says:

    Thank you so much!

  5. CrimsonCrow says:

    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:

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

  7. Prosenjit Manna says:

    Thank you very much….

  8. LP says:

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

  9. Daryl says:

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

  10. Stacey says:

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

  11. Srinivasan Devrajan says:

    Thanks. Joe

    Much appreciate the tip. Cheers Srinivasan Devrajan

  12. dp says:

    YOU BEAUTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

  13. Tabi says:

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

  14. Suzanne says:

    Thank you!!

  15. Jacquie says:

    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!

  16. KB says:

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

  17. david says:

    Yeaah this is it!

  18. Stephanie says:

    Thank you!!!!!!

  19. Matt says:

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

  20. Bee says:

    Thank you SO much for this!!!

  21. Deborah says:

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

  22. Faith says:

    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.

  23. Alisha says:

    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!!!

  24. Shira says:

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

  25. Robin says:

    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!!

  26. Rachel E. says:

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

  27. Daisy says:

    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!

  28. Eric Nagel says:

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

  29. NumberOne says:

    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.

  30. Craig Adams says:

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

  31. Shar says:

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

  32. Yes, it works… thank you.

  33. Alyssa Posk says:

    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!

  34. Peggy S says:

    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.

  35. Antwan Floyd Sr. says:

    thanks I appreciate it

  36. Colleen Kelly says:

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

  37. Tais says:

    You clearly just save my life! Thank you!

  38. Lorene says:

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

  39. Charlotte says:

    Thank you so much! Literally made my morning!

  40. Philip says:

    Likewise, my thanks for this simple but elusive fix!

  41. Krzysztof says:

    You are God! Thanks for that!

  42. jamie says:

    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!

  43. Jerry says:

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

  44. Denise says:

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

  45. Arlene says:

    Great easy fix! Thank you.

  46. Linz says:

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

  47. 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.

  48. AJ Parker says:

    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!