How to identify uppercase, lowercases, and proper cases in Excel?

Sometimes there may be many uppercases, lowercase, or proper cases mixing in a range. Normally it is not easy to identify the cells with uppercase, lowercase, or proper cases by eyes quickly. And here we will introduce some easy ways to identify cells with uppercase, lowercase, and proper case quickly.

Identify all cells with UPPERCASE in selection in Excel

Identify all cells with lowercase in selection in Excel

Identify all cells with Proper Case in selection in Excel

We will show you the guidance to identify all uppercase, lowercases, and proper cases with the following table.

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Convert text strings to uppercase, lowercase, proper case or sentence case:

With the help of Kutools for Excel’s Change Case utility, you can quickly change the text strings to upper case, lower case, proper case, sentence case and so on.

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arrow blue right bubble Identify all cells with UPPERCASE in selection in Excel

You can identify all cells with uppercases in a selection with following steps:

1. In a blank cell, says Cell C1, enter the formula of =EXACT(B1,UPPER(B1)), and press the Enter key.

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This formula will identify whether the text in Cell B1 is uppercase or not. If the text in Cell B1 is uppercase, it will returns "TRUE"; if the text in Cell B1 is not uppercase, it will returns "FALSE".

2. Select the Range of C1:C20, and click the Home > Fill > Down to copy the formula to each cell. Now you can identify the uppercase in Column B according to the values in Column C easily.

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arrow blue right bubble Identify all cells with lowercase in selection in Excel

You can identity all cells with lowercase in selection with following steps:

1. In a blank cell, says Cell C1, enter the formula of =EXACT(B1,LOWER(B1)), and press the Enter key.

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2. Select the cell C1, and drag the fill handle over the range of cells that you want to contain this formula. Now it fills the Column C with the text of "TRUE" and "FALSE". The text of "TRUE" means the text in corresponding cell in Column B is lowercase, and the text of "FALSE" means it is not lowercase.

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arrow blue right bubble Identify all cells with Proper Case in selection in Excel

You can use this formula =EXACT(B1,PROPER(B1)) or =SUBSTITUTE(B1,PROPER(B1),"x")="x" to identify if the text in specific cell is proper case or not.

That will also return False if the original string (in B1) is not in the proper case, and True if it is. See screenshots:

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    Florine · 9 months ago
    Superb . This one really helped me
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    Nikola · 1 years ago
    How to search in text for example Hellohall and separate small and big capital in our case Hallo hall?
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    Derek · 3 years ago
    anyway that =EXACT(B1,PROPER(B1)) can ignore apostrophes?

    i am getting a false return on : McDonald's
    if i change it to McDonald'S - it returns true, which is not what I am looking for
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    mahesh · 4 years ago
    Thanks for your supporting.
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    Kavith Sudam Shetty · 4 years ago
    How to identity capital letter between both cells A1 A2

    A1 Cell - Kavith is Going to Home
    A2 Cell - kavith is going to home

    How to find A2 is properly as A1cell or not.
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    aabid khan · 4 years ago
    hoe to identity a capital letter in a cell in excel like aabId=I, manOj= O
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    ashu · 4 years ago
    can you explain me what is "x")="x" denote in substitute function. As if i know substitute function replace the old text to new text depend on the place.
    thanks in advance
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    uppercase · 5 years ago
    can some one show me on the keyboard were my uppercase is
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    uppercase · 5 years ago
    can someone show me what & were uppercase is
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    Theo · 5 years ago
    Thanx it does wonders,,,
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    Nirajkumar · 5 years ago
    Very informative. Thanks a lot for sharing.