There are many workarounds: using bold, bigger font, holding the shift key, not writing in caps that much, using emoticons, using expletives, using many exclamation marks, etc.

The easiest way to do what you want is to use the registry mapping.
This requires administrative privileges and affects all users.

Mapping through the registry affects all applications, including applications that read the keys directly (some games, VMware, etc.). This method doesn't support the multilingual features of the Colemak layout and doesn't allow switching to other layouts.

* Make sure that the US QWERTY layout is the default keyboard layout, and the only keyboard layout installed. Remove all other keyboard layouts. Warning: failing to do so will cause a scrambled key layout, which will make the keyboard very difficult to use. You'll have to discover by trial and error the output of every key.
* Download the KMapper utility (https://colemak.com/Registry_remapping)
* Run the KMapper utility; File > Open > Choose the "colemak.kmp" file
* Map the Backspace key to Caps Lock.
* File > Save to Registry > Per Machine
* Reboot

* To remove the remappings: Run the I386\Clear remapping.reg file

It's actually quite a lot of work to change it, because it requires several manual hacks to modify the special key Caps Lock, repackaging the installer, testing, etc. There's a program called "Keyboard Layout Manager" that can also do that, but it's not free. For this type of change you need the 2000 edition (costs 50€). I'm really busy these days, so I probably won't have time to create for you a modified layout.

Another solution is to switch to the standard Colemak layout, and install AutoHotKey (https://www.autohotkey.com/). Create a text file using Notepad (or any other text editor) named CapsLock.ahk containing the following line:

Then double-click the file to run it. This will map Scroll Lock to Caps Lock. You can add it to your startup. If you want to change it to some other hotkey, take a look at the "Hotkey basics" section in the AutoHotKey help.

Yeah, I would suggest that colemak remaps CAPSlock to backspace or that there is a CAPSlock version of Colemak. Since I only use the new backspace, the old one is a free key now and I'd be happy to have CAPSlock, which I do need sometimes.

I agree absolutely that the upper case should not be used, maybe except for short abbreviations which can be typed with repeated Shift. Most of the time there are other means which are better overall. But if liked or not, there are too many occasions where one has to type words not invented by himself like "UNESCO", keywords in programming languages like SQL or Fortran, "LD_LIBRARY_PATH", "MAXHOSTNAMELEN" and much more.

These are my thoughts about the pros (+) and cons (-) for some solutions:

1) No Caps Lock at all:
- People without patience or being too skeptical may stop exploring on Colemak only because of this if they did not come across all the Colemak pros yet.
+ Weakens the usage of upper case.

2) Caps Lock with a rarely used special key like Scroll Lock or Windows keys left/right:
- Many special keys can not be found on many keyboards.
- Using such a key weakens the work of people to get rid of it.

3) Caps Lock with AltGr+Shift:
+ simply similar to the existing AltGr extensions of Colemak.
+ simply similar to Shift itself to which the Caps Lock is related to.
+ Similar to using Shift as a release of Caps Lock like it can be configured in some operating systems.
+ Similar to Left-Alt+Shift used to change the keyboard layout on the fly in some operating systems.
Left-Alt+Shift shows that at least in some operating systems it is possible to do something with a combination of modifier keys without an additional key which produces a glyph when used solely. If AltGr+Shift is too disadvantageous, a key which produces a glyph when used solely, together with AltGr could be used at least. Then a left hand key would be preferred because AltGr is right hand. Another alternative would be Shift+Backspace like in Asset keyboard layout where Backspace is the old Caps Lock key too.

Now which one to favor? The most important thing in my opinion is to have as many people as possible changing to Colemak as soon as possible. With that point of view the current state 1) is not the solution. A Colemak not widely used but without Caps Lock does not considerably weaken the usage of upper case.

I guess the layout I'm using is a mod of rather than the True Colemak, because I've never used nor can I foresee using the single most touted feature of Colemak, namely the use of the QWERTY Caps Lock for Backspace.   The thing is, I prefer to have that key be Control (Unix users will empathize).  Luckily, this feature seems to be technically slightly more difficult to enable than the rest of Colemak, and that's just fine with me.

(Also, the hair-shirt-wearer in me likes the fact that there should be some penalty to reaching for the Backspace key.  Hitting Backspace shouldn't be too easy -- at least for me!)

Exactly.   I started using Colemak cold turkey on July 4, 2007, a holiday here (I essentially sucked in the difficulty of being a laughably slow typist on two workdays until the weekend, when I got to practise some more). 

I did not have the skill to change CapsLock to Backspace on the Mac OS.  I also couldn't get the offered Solaris software to work on my work Sun machine -- so I wrote a very easy and naive xmodmap myself looking at 'man xmodmap', but didn't deal with CapsLock, because (a) I was too lazy to add the slightly more clever entries for it, and (b) the CapsLock on my Sun keyboard was not all that desirable a location to begin with (Sun keyboards, sensibly enough, have their only Control key where you might expect CapsLock; they don't have symmetrical Left and Right Controls).  I like the Sun setup so much that I have CapsLock mapped to Control on the Mac -- which is an easy change that Mac OS X allows without external software.

From hindsight, my inability to change CapsLock was a boon.  I kept using Backspace as in QWERTY whenever I needed to, and since it was a dreaded trip to keyboard Siberia (instead of keyboard Hawaii as Colemak mandates), my fingers learned to make less mistakes.  I can now do 67wpm without frightening the horses. 

Still, the CapsLock-to-Backspace was a good publicity hook, even if in my case that's the one thing in Colemak that I didn't end up adopting.  There is obviously a large groundswell of antipathy toward CapsLock, which I share from having had to deal with non-Sun keyboards, and my eyes wouldn't have been open to Colemak if it weren't for its feisty anti-CapsLock stance.  Mere rearrangement of the letter keys would not have registered on me as something I could possibly learn to use.

I enabled sticky keys (with lock) on my computer. It only affects hotkeys that rely on modifier keys only, and I rarely have an accident because of it.

It'd be nice to see how to map backspace to caps lock using the layout.ini file in pkl. it'd also be nice to see how to map the right win key to caps lock using pkl-style layout.ini syntax.

Chromebooks do not have a caps lock key by default, and instead have the "search key" (basically, it opens a new tab). To get caps lock (without changing the settings for the search key), you press shift-shift. A similar approach would probably work for Colemak, as long as you are able to map shift-shift.

Hi. Although I agree that the conventional location of caps lock is inconvenient, why not remap it somewhere else, like backspace? In some programming languages' style codes it is mandatory to fully capitalize. It is not only useful to yell on forums.