Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated May 14, 2022)
This tip applies to Excel 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
Have you ever run into people who insist on typing everything with the Caps Lock key on? In some worksheets, that may not be acceptable. Yet, there you are, with a worksheet full of text cells that are all in uppercase. How do you convert everything to upper- and lowercase, without the need to retype?
If you find yourself in this situation, the MakeProper macro may do the trick for you. It will examine a range of cells, which you select, and then convert any constants to what Excel refers to as "proper case." This simply means that when you are done, the first letter of each word in a cell will be uppercase; the rest will be lowercase. If a cell contains a formula, it is ignored.
Sub MakeProper() Dim rngSrc As Range Dim lMax As Long, lCtr As Long Set rngSrc = ActiveSheet.Range(ActiveWindow.Selection.Address) lMax = rngSrc.Cells.Count For lCtr = 1 To lMax If Not rngSrc.Cells(lCtr).HasFormula Then rngSrc.Cells(lCtr) = Application.Proper(rngSrc.Cells(lCtr)) End If Next lCtr End Sub
If you would rather convert all the text in the range into lowercase, you can instead use the following macro, MakeLower().
Sub MakeLower() Dim rngSrc As Range Dim lMax As Long, lCtr As Long Set rngSrc = ActiveSheet.Range(ActiveWindow.Selection.Address) lMax = rngSrc.Cells.Count For lCtr = 1 To lMax If Not rngSrc.Cells(lCtr).HasFormula Then rngSrc.Cells(lCtr) = LCase(rngSrc.Cells(lCtr)) End If Next lCtr End Sub
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