MAC capital letter issues

Even when the caps symbol is off my Mac will only type capital letters. Don't know how this happened. Now I can't sign on because of this issue. Help please!

Posted on Sep 2, 2019 7:38 AM

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2 replies

macjack

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Sep 2, 2019 7:46 AM in response to dayn47

Connect any other usb keyboard and test. If it works as expected then it's a problem with your keyboard hardware.

Barney-15E

Level 10

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Sep 2, 2019 7:54 AM in response to dayn47

Is it everywhere?

I.e., are you using an All Caps font?

Open Keyboard System Preferences. Input sources.

Does the keyboard show that the Shift key is held down? Do you only see all caps.

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