MY MACBOOK KEYBOARD ONLY TYPES IN CAPITAL LETTERS

my macbook keyboard only types in capial letters

And you posted here with a different computer?
...If not, does the Caps shift around by itself?
Are you using an external keyboard at the same time
and if so, was the Shift key locked on it? You can
choose to set Keyboard settings to ignore input from
the internal keyboard or trackpad, not sure on external.
{Or have you posted with a USB external keyboard?}
I'm presuming the issue is not as obvious as the lighted
'Caps Lock key' that shifts this function on/off. There
may be something sticking in the MacBook keyboard
or perhaps it has some kind of defect issue going on.
Good luck & happy computing!

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my new MacBook Pro has a strange tick. Sometimes it only writes in capital letters, though capslock not activated, also when switching to see all windows one movement (there or back) is very slow. Already did the hardware test, no problems found. When I use external keyboard working normally and problem stops after a while. Anyone observed the same? Solution??
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Try resetting the PRAM. Info here:
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Found this on several other discussions but it was the first time it had happened to me.
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When I try to add text to a picture in my photoshop elements, then it only writes with capital letters.
I guess I might have pushed some botton somewhere, but I can't find it.
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greetings from Sweden
Christina

As I have never used PSE, I am not sure if it has something like the Character Palette (probably similar, as the Options Bar above, seems similar), but in PS, there is a setting for All Caps in the Character Palette. That is where one could easily change things to Initial Caps, if that is what is desired.
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Here's a look at PS CS2's Character Palette, w/ the All Caps icon active.
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will only type CAPITAL letter no matter what font I choose. Started doing this yesterday and I can't get back to having upper and lower case letters.

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I purchased an IPAD2 for my special needs daughter. She only currently understands lowercase letters only and gets confused with the uppercase letters. Is there a way to change the keyboard to display lowercase letters?

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There is no way for the keyboard itself to display only lower case letters. It doesn't display lower case letters at all for that matter.
When you are using the keyboard - The other issue that you will have is with the shift key. Even with auto caps turned off you can still type capital letters if you tap the shift key and if you double tap it by mistake - it will turn into all capital letters so also turn off Caps Lock in the keyboard settings.
Other than that, there is no way to ensure that you can type in lower case.
Maybe an external bluetooth keyboard would be a better solution but I don't use one, and I have never even seen one in person so someone else will have to verify that for you.

My Macbook Pro(2010) only writes in capitol letters, can´t write numbers and only starts up in safe mode once a week!

Hey guys!
So my Macbook started acting weird a couple of months ago. All of a sudden i could only write in capitol letters and i couldnt write any numbers. Every time i tried to write a number, i would only get the symbols instead such as " "#¤%&/ " etc. I tried restarting it and the computer booted in safe mode and still had the same problem as before. I decided to read around some forums and someone suggested " zapping the PRAM" which i did and it fixed the problem for about 1-2 days and then it was back to the normal.
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