Help please - my fonts are stuck in all caps

[Mary Rogers]

in pse 5.0 - I have reset the tools and I still can't figure it out - it obviously is not my keyboard...

any ideas? I am not an all caps journaler
thanks

[nirecreations]

Can't help with the Cap issue but... can you journal elsewhere and then copy and paste until you figure it out?

[katie pertiet]

In the text toolbox is the capital icon at the bottom left highlighted? click that off if it is...

HTH!

[Cassie Jones (1gr8muggle)]

My sister had this issue, too . . . let me send her this thread to see what her final solution was.

[Britgirl]

you know what mine did that a while ago... and I *think* I had to shut down PS and start again. Its one of those nasty scary quirks I think. will be interested to see what the correct procedure is!

[mugsbigsis]

Oh uggg! I know how frustrating this is for you as it happened to me and I never figured it out. Sometimes it would work and sometimes it wouldn't. I was not able to copy paste it in either. It would change to all caps no matter what I did. The good news is that after a week or so of pulling my hair out it just started working again. Did I accidently hit something to start or stop it? I have no idea. . . Sorry I have no solution for you, but hope it starts up for you again soon.

[Mary Rogers]

katie,
I don't have a capital icon in PSE - I tried restarting (it was doing it yesterday as well) PSE, reset tools, but nothing works.

[ptknox]

Mary, it may be that your PSE Preferences file has become corrupt. I'd try deleting it and letting Photoshop rebuild the file. Here's how:

Close down Elements then click on the Editor start up icon and quickly hold down the Control, Alt and Shift keys (If you are a Mac user Apple, Alt and Shift). Continue to hold down all three keys until you get a screen asking if you want to delete Settings ... just say Yes.

Let me know if that works or not.

[Mary Rogers]

THANKS PATTIE and everyone for responding! I just read that at elements village as well, but I guess you need to be really quick cause I still haven't been able to do it - but I am going to keep trying because that seems to be the solution....ugh

[audrey77]

If it's too fast, there are the actual files that you can rename as .old and it will make new ones for you.

To re-create the Photoshop Elements preferences file:

1. Quit Photoshop Elements.
2. Locate the preferences file for the Editor in Photoshop Elements:
3. * On Windows XP: Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\5.0\Editor\Photoshop Elements 5 Prefs.psp
* On Windows Vista: Users\[user]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\5.0\Editor\Photoshop Elements 5 Prefs.psp
4. Rename the extension for the file (for example, to Photoshop Elements 5 Prefs.old).
5. Start the Editor in Photoshop Elements. Photoshop Elements creates a new preferences file.

[Mary Rogers]

audrey,
thank you for the manual instructions - I just couldn't get it to work doing the ctrl-alt-shirt keys...I sent it to my dh this morning from work and he indicated that it seems to have worked... : )

what a crazy thing - thanks again everyone - now I can finish my layouts without EVERYTHING BEING IN ALL CAPS, lol

[mugsbigsis]

Oh YAY, Mary! I'm going to save these manual instructions. :O)

[audrey77]

You just have a freakin' fast computer! I could make a cup of tea and still have time to press the buttons with my desktop ;-)

[justmp]

I'm curious about this, too. I've been having that happen periodically in PSCS3 for the past couple of weeks. It will be fine and then all of a sudden will only type in caps. It resets when I close the program and reopen, but what a hassle!

[Mary Rogers]

You just have a freakin' fast computer!

lol - oh that is why - my dh thought I was nuts last night trying this when everything I read said it worked...it is a new dell laptop : )

[justmp]

I just came back to this thread for ideas on WHY mine was typing in all caps all the time, and Katie's was the trick for me!! Thanks Katie!!