[Solved] Format uppercase to lowercase with capital letter

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cord
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[Solved] Format uppercase to lowercase with capital letter

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I have a column with names written in capital letters and want to make it lower letters with capital first letter.
Using Format - Change to uppercase/lowercase makes all letters either lower or upper but not with capital first letter.
Is there any way to do this?
Last edited by Hagar Delest on Sat Jun 28, 2008 11:59 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: format uppercase to lowercase with capital letter

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You can insert a temp column next to it and (assuming that you've inserted B after A which you want in Title case) then SET B1 to the formula
  • =UPPER(LEFT(A1;1))&LOWER(MID(A1;1;256))
then copy B and Past Special->Strings onto A. Then delete B.
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Re: format uppercase to lowercase with capital letter

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If course, great, thanks! :D
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Re: format uppercase to lowercase with capital letter

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=PROPER(A1)
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Re: format uppercase to lowercase with capital letter

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PROPER will uppercase the first letter of all words in the Cell not just the first. If this is what you want, then its the most elegant solution.
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