I have a real simple and seemingly stupid question, but I am getting alittle frusterated. I really like the intellesence in Visual Studio 2008, but there is one thing that
Try using Ctrl+U
This shortcut would replace and lowercase whatever letter after the cursor.
Using this shortcut on a symbol would replace it with the same symbol.
Your hands won't leave the home row keys and your cursor would be placed after the ending quotation mark.