How to change uppercase to proper or title case in Microsoft Excel?

Sometime you may need to change uppercase letters to title case or proper case. And this article will guide you to change all uppercase letters or text strings to proper case or title case in Microsoft Excel.

Change uppercase to proper/title case in Excel with PROPER function

Change uppercase to proper/title case in Excel with VBA code

Change uppercase to proper/title case in Excel with Kutools for Excel

Supposing you have to change the uppercase letters in A1:A10 to proper case in Microsoft Excel.

arrow blue right bubble Change uppercase to proper/title case in Excel with PROPER function

Microsoft Excel's Proper function can change any text to proper cases. Please do as this:

1. In the adjacent blank cell B1, enter this formula: = PROPER (A1), see screenshot:

2. Then press Enter key, select cell B1, and drag the fill handle over the range that you want to contain this formula. And all of the upper case text has been converted to the proper case. See screenshot:

Note: As they are formulas, when you copy and paste them, you need paste them as values.

arrow blue right bubble Change uppercase to proper/title case in Excel with VBA code

1. Active the worksheet that you want to use.

2. Then click Developer > Visual Basic, a new Microsoft Visual Basic for applications window will be displayed (or you can press the shortcut keys Alt + F11 to open the window), then click Insert > Module, and input the following code into the Module:

Sub ProperCase()
'Updateby20131127
Dim Rng As Range
Dim WorkRng As Range
On Error Resume Next
xTitleId = "KutoolsforExcel"
Set WorkRng = Application.Selection
Set WorkRng = Application.InputBox("Range", xTitleId, WorkRng.Address, Type:=8)
For Each Rng In WorkRng
    Rng.Value = Application.WorksheetFunction.Proper(Rng.Value)
Next
End Sub

3. Then click button to run the code, then a dialog is displayed for you to select a range, see screenshot:

4. Click OK and all of the upper case letters have been changed to proper cases.

arrow blue right bubble Change uppercase to proper/title case in Excel with Kutools for Excel

The Change Case tool of Kutools for Excel can help you easily change the text or letters to any kinds of cases. So does the proper/title case in selections.

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1. Select the range which you will change uppercases to proper/title cases.

2. Click the Kutools > Text Tools > Change Case…. See screenshot:

3. In Change Case dialog box, check the Proper Case option, and you can preview the results at the Preview Pane. See screenshot:

4. Then click OK or Apply. And all uppercase in the selection are changed to proper/title case.

Note: This utility of Proper Case cannot only change uppercase to title case, but also can change all case in the selection to title case.

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Comments  

Permalink +2 Chetan Sonawane
I wish to Sort the parameters by certain terms and not by Alphabetically, i.e by either A to Z or Z to A.

Kindly suggest solution.
2014-02-01 06:03 Reply Reply with quote Quote
Permalink +1 Carmel
Try turning it into a function as follows. Save in personal app file and then you can use in all workbooks

Public Function SENTENCECASE(Se n As String)
'Sen is the range selected in the brackets of the function as the input cell
On Error Resume Next

xValue = Sen
xStart = True
For i = 1 To VBA.Len(xValue)
ch = Mid(xValue, i, 1)
Select Case ch
Case "."
xStart = True
Case "?"
xStart = True
Case "a" To "z"
If xStart Then
ch = UCase(ch)
xStart = False
End If
Case "A" To "Z"
If xStart Then
xStart = False
Else
ch = LCase(ch)
End If
End Select
Mid(xValue, i, 1) = ch
Next

SENTENCECASE = xValue
End Function
2014-04-10 20:16 Reply Reply with quote Quote
Permalink 0 sangmesh
excel formula change sentence case shortcut key
2015-02-03 09:34 Reply Reply with quote Quote
Permalink 0 Don E
Oh my gosh, you saved me. Best Excel help site I have seen. Plus I don't have to call Jeff for help every time I open excel.

Thank you.
Don
2015-08-18 11:34 Reply Reply with quote Quote
Permalink 0 eigo
hello, great job. seems legit
2016-01-23 13:17 Reply Reply with quote Quote
Permalink 0 KP
OMG... Thank you for this. I never knew about the PROPER command. This has been driving me nuts for years!
2016-01-27 16:27 Reply Reply with quote Quote
Permalink 0 Phil
This a great tutorial, and you got the desired result, but you are actually converting to Proper case rather than "Title case".
This Sentence Is Written In Proper Case.
This Sentence is Written in Title Case.
This sentence is written in sentence case.
In Title case, the first word, proper nouns, etc are capitalised; the "little" words are not. If you try your tutorial with the text in this comment, you'll see even the "little" words become capitalised.
I've been Googling how to do Title case in Excel, but everyone suggests using =PROPER(), which is not the right solution.
2016-10-26 02:10 Reply Reply with quote Quote

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