However, using the same shortcut, you can type uppercase umlaut letters by turning on the caps lock. These is how you may use the keyboard shortcut to type all the umlaut letters in Microsoft Word. Option two: Using the Insert symbol dialog. Using the Insert symbol dialog box, you can insert any umlaut character in Word. This built in functionality in Word is actually not that useful to anyone who spends a lot of time in word (I wrote a book in Word). In Word 2003 I assigned a macro to a key combination Ctrl Shift K that enabled me to cycle through all lowercase, Title Case, UPPERCASE, and Small Caps. The small font generator has a total of three options that appear once you type in any word or sentence. These three options are small caps, superscript and subscript. The users of the website can choose from these options of small fonts in the mini text generator. Accent menu: On a Mac computer keyboard, hold down the letter you want to add an accent to for several seconds, after which a small menu pops up with different accent options for that letter. Each option for a particular letter appears with a number underneath it. In the Effects section, select the box beside Small caps to change font case to small capitals or All caps to format the text as regular sized capital letters 4.If you are satisfied with the.
Small caps can be a useful tool for that extra bit of typographic expression, but if you don’t use them right, your plan will backfire. You’ll make your typography look sloppy, and unprofessional.
“Fake” small caps can be seen everywhere these days. Many desktop publishing programs have “small caps” buttons that simply scale the capital letters down to make small caps.
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But isn’t that what small caps are? NO! I explain in this video, or just keep reading:
“Fake” small caps vs. “Real” small caps
“Real” small caps are drawn separately from the standard capital letters in a font. The strokes of the letters are made fatter, to account for the fact that they will look too thin if the letters are just scaled down.
Notice the difference between “real” and “fake” small caps in the image below.
If you don’t learn the difference, you’ll likely be using fake small caps for the rest of your life, and design pros will gather in dark chambers to privately poke fun at your work.
How To Use Small Caps In Word
How to avoid using “fake” small caps
One way to avoid using fake small caps is to just not use small caps! You could always just use all-caps instead. Nobody will ever say “hey, did you notice that weirdo never uses small caps?” You’d be fine, and you could express yourself typographically numerous other ways.
There are two different ways that real small caps can be used: you can use a special small caps version of your font, or you can access custom small caps through OpenType.
If there’s a dedicated small caps version of your font, can see this in your font picker. Here’s Adobe Garamond in InDesign.
Sometimes you can choose a small caps font from a font picker.
However, this isn’t a foolproof way to ensure you have real small caps available. Some OpenType fonts have small caps alternates built-in. When you select “small caps” from the Character Palette in InDesign, for example, you’ll get real small caps if you’re using one of these kinds of OpenType fonts. If there isn’t a dedicated alternate small caps version, you’ll get fake small caps!
It’s very confusing, and kind of scary. It seems there’s no way to guarantee you’re using real small caps.
The best method is to just learn to spot the difference between real and fake small caps. It may seem tricky at first, but once you figure it out, you’ll never miss it.
Don’t be fooled! Using “real” small caps in CSS
If you use CSS’s
font-variant: small-caps
property you might think you’re getting real small caps – especially if there is a “real” version of small caps available for the font you’re using. Don’t be fooled! With the state of browsers today, font-variant: small-caps
still gets you fake small caps.The trick is to make a small caps version available using CSS’s
@font-face
rule. Then, you can use it like you would any font.@font-face {
font-family: “Adobe Garamond SC”;
src: local(“Adobe Garamond SC”);
}
Here it is being used as an abbreviation.
p abbr {
font-family: “Adobe Garamond SC”;
text-transform: lowercase;
}
Small Caps In Word 2007
If you’re using an OpenType font, and know there’s a small caps variation of your font available, you can try using CSS’s “font-feature-settings” property, which has pretty decent browser support, to summon those small caps.
Choose your small caps poison
Now you know the difference between real and fake small caps, so do with that knowledge what you see fit. Stop using small caps altogether, learn to spot difference (and act accordingly), or just go on using fake small caps (while leading a life of eternal typographic alienation and suffering).
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