
Finally you need to remove the first column with messy text. Nothing will seem to happen but in fact all your formulae have been deleted and replaced with the resulting corrected text.ħ. The following examples convert the characters from lower case to upper case and print results on the standard. You can either :lower: :upper: or 'a-z' 'A-Z' to convert lower case to upper case. Right Click again on the same column header and select Paste / 123 (Value) see below) We can use tr for case conversion, ie to convert sentences or words from lower case to upper case or vise versa. Now Right Click on the new column header (in this case letter 'B') and select Copy (you should see 'marching ants' arround your selection. Tip: Just Double click the tiny black box (called the handle) at the bottom right corner of the cell with your formula in like this:Ħ. Now you can easily copy the formula down the new blank column You should find the first letter of each word is capitalised and the rest is lower caseĥ. Now click in the empty cell right of the first name and type in the following command: =PROPER(A2) then press the Enter Key (see this example)Ĥ. Here is an example of a dreadful muddle of text cases in column A.Īs you can see some names are in CAPITAL LETTERS some in lower case and some All jUMbLeD uP!Ģ. Add a column to the right (Right Click on 'B' and select Insert)ģ. For sure one quick and easy way for text. Then press Ctrl + V to paste text now converted to lowercase alphabets.

Similarly after you copy the text, press Ctrl + Shift + L keys to convert text to lowercase. Microsoft Excel has some handy functions to change case - this is what you can do:ġ. Then open notepad or word processor file, press Ctrl + V to paste text in uppercase, converted automatically through clipcase utility.

However you can use this method So what do you do if you have a column of Names all typed in CAPITAL LETTERS? We are slowly moving towards the online platform, and Google Docs is one of the best ways to write documents online and send them effortlessly by email or other means. Unlike Word, Excel does not have a change case facility.
