If you use worksheets that have quite a bit of text in them, there may be times you long for a function like Word has that easily converts between upper and lower case. Excel contains such functions, but they are designed to be used in macros, not as commands from the menus.
If you want to quickly convert large ranges of text without the need to retype the text in the cells of the range, you can use the following macro:
Sub MakeUpper()
Dim MyText As String
Dim MyRange As Range
Dim CellCount As Integer
Set MyRange = ActiveSheet.Range(ActiveWindow.Selection.Address)
For CellCount = 1 To MyRange.Cells.Count
If Not MyRange.Cells(CellCount).HasFormula Then
MyText = MyRange.Cells(CellCount).Value
MyRange.Cells(CellCount).Value = UCase(MyText)
End If
Next CellCount
End Sub
This macro steps through the cells in a range you select, converts the contents of any cell that does not contain a formula to uppercase. You can easily modify the macro so that it converts to lowercase by changing the UCase function (used near the bottom of the macro) to LCase. Another nifty modification is if you want to use title case instead of uppercase or lowercase. (Title case is where only the first letter of each word is uppercased.) To do this, replace UCase(MyText) with Application.Proper(MyText).
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