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How to capitalize rst letter in Excel cells

Oct by Natalia Sharashova | updated on November 28, 2017 1 Comment

How can we change the case of the rst letter from lower to upper in Excel cells? Do we have to type Custom Sear
each character manually into every cell? Not anymore! Today I will share three methods of capitalizing
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a I believe when it comes to text in Excel, one of the most commonly required tasks is to capitalize Excel: featured articles
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h Put the cursor into new B2 cell and input the following formula there: Excel conditional formatting
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z =REPLACE(LOWER(C2),1,1,UPPER(LEFT(C2,1)))
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k Let me explain what the formula above means:

D UPPER(LEFT(C2,1)) converts the rst letter of C2 cell to capital.

d REPLACE function is used to make sure that the whole text is returned with one speci ed letter
changed - the rst one in our case.
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y Adding LOWER(C2) as the rst argument of the REPLACE function allows us to lower all other
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Thus, you get properly looking cells written as sentences.

First letter Capital, disregard the rest  

In order to capitalize the rst letter of the cell and leave the other characters as they are, we will
use the same formula as above with a little modi cation.

But rst, again, make sure to create another column to use the formula. Then, enter the following
into B2:

=REPLACE(C2,1,1,UPPER(LEFT(C2,1)))

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See, we deleted that "LOWER" part from the beginning of the formula. This little change won't
lower all the letters in a cell but will still capitalize the rst one:

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a Tip. Don't forget to copy the formula down if Excel hasn't done it automatically.

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z Capitalize rst letter using Text Toolkit: Change Case
n If you decide that you need a quicker and faster way of making rst letters in Excel cells capital,

W you will choose wisely!

f Our Change Case from Text Toolkit will look over those pretty little letters of yours. It is available in
the collection of 60+ toos for Excel - Ultimate Suite:

k 1. Download and install Ultimate Suite collection to your PC.

D 2. Run Excel and click the Change Case tool icon in the Text group under the Ablebits Data tab:

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The add-in pane will appear on the left side of your Excel window.

3. Manually select the range of cells where you want to change case, B2:B10 in our case.

Tip. You can select the range before running the tool. It will show the selected range in the
corresponding eld automatically.

4. Choose the Sentence case option to make the rst letter of each cell capital:

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Note. If you want to save a copy of your data just in case, tick o the Back up the worksheet
option before making any changes.

5. Click the Change case button and see the result:

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a Note. When every word in a cell (except the rst one) starts with a capital letter, the add-in will

h not only capitalize the rst character, but also lower the rest.

z You can get 15% o of Ultimate Suite to get hold of Change Case tool if you use the coupon code
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n As you can see, capitalizing letters in Excel is not rocket science. Now you can do it in a couple of

W mouse-clicks and enjoy the results. Feel free to leave comments and ask questions down below :)

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October 16, 2017 at 5:09 pm

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