Excel UPPER, LOWER, PROPER and sentence case functions

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In Excel, to change the case of text, you can use the UPPER, LOWER, PROPER and sentence case functions.

The UPPER function takes the text string and converts it to all uppercase letters, like shown below:

UPPER formula

The LOWER function takes the text string and converts it to all lowercase letters, like shown below:

LOWER formula

The PROPER function takes the text string and capitalizes each word, like shown below:

PROPER formula

In sentence case, the first letter of the first word of the sentence is capitalized. To convert a case to the sentence case, you can use the following formula based on the SUBSTITUTE, PROPER and LOWER functions, like shown below:

=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(PROPER(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(LOWER(A12),". ","9z9")," ","zxz")),"9Z9",". "),"zxz"," ")

Sentence case formula

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Hey, I am Kunal Aggarwal, the founder and author of Kunal Excel Tip based in New Delhi, India. I have completed my postgraduation from NIIT Limited, New Delhi in Excel course in 2019. Since then, I have been using and learning Microsoft Excel and started writing posts on the spreadsheet software here since March 2024.

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