The shift key fato capitalize text on my Alcatel 871A. Is this a harware malfunction or a settings issue?

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What do you want?
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it could be set to do so in system settings, like a shortcut. or there could internally be something inside under the keys which causes it to do that

Make sure you call your company and make sure in includes text messaging.

You may download a copy of the manual at http://www.att.com/support_static_files/manuals/Alcatel_871A.pdf

You might also want to take a look at the video tutorials at http://www.att.com/devicehowto/?make=alcatel&model=871a

Try following :-

1. Select the text that you want to change the case of.
2. On the Home tab, in the Font group, click Change Case (as shown in the diagram below), and then click the capitalization option that you want.

• To capitalize the first letter of a sentence and leave all other letters as lowercase, click Sentence case.
• To exclude capital letters from your text, click lowercase.
• To capitalize all of the letters, click UPPERCASE.
• To capitalize the first letter of each word and leave the other letters lowercase, click Capitalize Each Word.
• To shift between two case views (for example, to shift between Capitalize Each Word and the opposite, cAPITALIZEeACHwORD), click tOGGLE cASE.
• To apply the small capital (Small Caps) letter formatting to your text, see the note and diagram below.

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Are you talking about making text capitalized?

If so, then all you need to do is hold down your "shift" key on the bottom left of your keyboard at the same time you press the letter in which you want to make capital and then release both keys.

If you want to type a whole line of capitalized letters, press the "cap lock" key on the bottom left side of your keyboard and then you dont have to hold down the shift key.

When I set up the Text to Speech component in the System Preferences I had chosen Shift S as the key to activate this. I had to turn that off so that my Shift S would work again in a text document.

You can either turn on CAPS Lock or hold the shift key while typing. Have you already tried this?