Change Text to Upper Case or Proper Case

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Change Text to Upper Case or Proper Case. See Also: Force Upper Case/Proper Case

Excel has 2 built in functions for converting text to either UPPER CASE or Proper Case. The 2 functions that do this are shown below;

=UPPER(A1)
=PROPER(A1)

These Excel functions work well when referring to cells that house the text. However, there are many instances when using the Worksheet Function approach is not practical. The Excel macro code below can be used to change existing text to either UPPER CASE or Proper Case. If you run the macro with only a single cell selected it will work on the entire Worksheet. If you run the macro with more than 1 cell selected it will work on only your selection. The other settings that the StrConv Function take are shown below. See the Excel VBA help for specifics.

vbUpperCase = Converts the string to uppercase characters.
vbLowerCase = Converts the string to lowercase characters.
vbProperCase = Converts the first letter of every word in string to uppercase.
vbWide = Converts narrow (single-byte) characters in string to wide (double-byte) characters.
vbNarrow = Converts wide (double-byte) characters in string to narrow (single-byte) characters.
vbKatakana = Converts Hiragana characters in string to Katakana characters.
vbHiragana = Converts Katakana characters in string to Hiragana characters.
vbUnicode = Converts the string to Unicode using the default code page of the system. (Not available on the Macintosh.)
vbFromUnicode = Converts the string from Unicode to the default code page of the system. (Not available on the Macintosh.)

Sub ConvertCase()
Dim rAcells As Range, rLoopCells As Range
Dim lReply As Long

    'Set variable to needed cells
    If Selection.Cells.Count = 1 Then
        Set rAcells = ActiveSheet.UsedRange
    Else
       Set rAcells = Selection
    End If


    On Error Resume Next 'In case of NO text constants.
    'Set variable to all text constants
    Set rAcells = rAcells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants, xlTextValues)
    
    If rAcells Is Nothing Then
       MsgBox "Could not find any text."
       On Error GoTo 0
       Exit Sub
    End If
          
    lReply = MsgBox("Select 'Yes' for UPPER CASE or 'No' for Proper Case.", _
    vbYesNoCancel, "OzGrid.com")
    If lReply = vbCancel Then Exit Sub
  
    If lReply = vbYes Then ' Convert to Upper Case
          For Each rLoopCells In rAcells
              rLoopCells = StrConv(rLoopCells, vbUpperCase)
          Next rLoopCells
    Else ' Convert to Proper Case
          For Each rLoopCells In rAcells
              rLoopCells = StrConv(rLoopCells, vbProperCase)
          Next rLoopCells
    End If
    
End Sub

See Also: Force Upper Case/Proper Case

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