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How to change all caps to lowercase except first letter in Excel?

How could you change all capital letters to lowercase except the first letter of words in a column? In Excel, you can change all caps to lowercase except first letter of each word or all caps to lowercase except first letter of a sentence with following methods:

Change all caps to lowercase except first letter of each word with formula

Change all caps to lowercase except first letter of a sentence with formula

Change all caps to lowercase except first letter of each word / a sentence with Kutools for Excel

Change all caps to lowercase except first letter of each word with formula

If you want to change all uppercase to lowercase but keep the first letter of each word uppercase in a range of cells, the function of Proper in Excel may help you, please do as follows:

1. Enter the formula: =PROPER(A1) into a blank cell, C1 for instance, where you want to get the result, see screenshot:

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2. Then drag the fill handle down to the cells that you want to apply this formula, and every letter has been converted to lowercase except the first letter of each word, see screenshot:

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Change Case:(change text string to uppercase, lowercase, propercase and so on)

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. Click to download Kutools for Excel!

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Change all caps to lowercase except first letter of a sentence with formula

To change all caps to lowercase but the first letter in a sentence, you can apply the following formula to solve it.

1. Enter the following formula into a blank cell, C1, for example, =UPPER(LEFT(A1,1))&LOWER(RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-1)) (A1 is the cell reference that you want to use), see screenshot:

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2. Then drag the fill handle down to the cells that you want to contain this formula, all capital text strings have been converted to lowercase except the first letter of each the string, see screenshot:

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Kutools for Excel’s Change Case utility can help you quickly convert all uppercase to lowercase, proper case, sentence case and toggle case as you need without any formulas.

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After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as follows:

1. Select the text strings that you want to convert to lowercase but keep the first letter uppercase.

2. Then click Kutools > Text > Change Case, see screenshot:

3. In the Change Case dialog box:

(1.) Select Proper Case to change all caps to lowercase except the first letter of each word;

(2.) Select Sentence Case to change all caps to lowercase except the first letter only of each string.

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4. After choosing your desired option, then click Ok or Apply button, and you will get the result that you need.

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jfjoyner3
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Many phrases require a mix of Proper and UPPER. For example, changing I LIVE IN THE USA => I live in the USA. Or a mix of lower and UPPER, MY CLIENT IS PROTECTED BY ERISA => my client is protected by ERISA. Is there a formula solution to this?
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Hello,
If you're looking for a solution to convert text into a mix of lowercase and UPPER case based on certain words, maybe the following User Defined Function can help you:

Note: in the code, you just need to add the specific words into the exceptions = Array("USA", "ERISA") script that you want to keep uppercase.
Function CustomLowerCase(ByVal str As String) As String
    Dim word As Variant
    Dim result As String
    Dim exceptions() As Variant
    Dim tempWord As String
    ' List of words to remain in uppercase
    exceptions = Array("USA", "ERISA")
    For Each word In Split(str, " ")
        tempWord = LCase(word)
        For Each exception In exceptions
            If LCase(word) = LCase(exception) Then
                tempWord = UCase(word)
                Exit For
            End If
        Next exception
        result = result & " " & tempWord
    Next word
    CustomLowerCase = Trim(result)
End Function

After pasting the code, apply this formula:=CustomLowerCase(A1) to get the result you need.
Please have a try, hope it can help you!
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But this doesn't explain how to do "small caps" where the first letter is larger cap and the rest of the letters are small caps.
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Hello, The second method in this article provides the formual for converting the text strings to lowercase but the first letter is uppercase.=UPPER(LEFT(A1,1))&LOWER(RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-1))
Please check, thank you!
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stevelesko
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I have come this far but can not understand anything. I have forty blogs, about hundred pages to convert, but there is no information about how to doo full pages. Could you, or somebody, help out this old man-84 with his first computer, with some simple method how to do it!!!!????
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