How To Change From Capital Letters To Lowercase In Excel

In excel, words can be entered in uppercase, lowercase or mixed. If we want to convert all uppercase to lowercase (except the first letter in some situations), we can use formula with some letter convert related functions to convert them to proper case. This article will introduce you some methods to convert letters from uppercase to lowercase, it can help you to solve your problem.

Precondition:

Prepare below table. To convert uppercase to lowercase for worlds or sentence, actually there are two forms after converting. We can convert uppercase to lowercase but keep the first uppercase for each word; in another way, we can convert uppercase to lowercase but only keep the first uppercase for the first word in the sentence.

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Part 1: Convert Uppercase to Lowercase Except the First Letter for Each Word

Step 1: In B2 enter the formula =PROPER(A2).

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For PROPER function, it converts a text or string to proper case, actually it converts the first letter in each word to uppercase, but keeps other letters in lowercase. So, no matter letters are entered in uppercase or lowercase or mixed, it will be finally displayed with the first letter in uppercase with the other letters in lowercase after applying this function.

Step 2: Drag the fill handle down to fill other cells. Verify that uppercase is converted to lowercase properly.

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Part 2: Convert Uppercase to Lowercase Except the First Letter for the First Word

Step 1: In B6 enter the formula =UPPER(LEFT(A6,1))&LOWER(RIGHT(A6,LEN(A6)-1)).

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This formula is combined with UPPER and LOWER two functions. It is easy to understand. For UPPER function, keep the first letter from left displaying in uppercase; for LOWER function, keep other letters except the first letter from left displaying in lowercase.

Step 2: Drag the fill handle down to fill other cells. Verify that uppercase is converted to lowercase properly.

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Related Functions

Excel UPPER function
The Excel UPPER function converts all characters in text string to uppercase.The UPPER function is a build-in function in Microsoft Excel and it is categorized as a Text Function.The syntax of the UPPER function is as below:= UPPER (text)…
Excel LOWER function
The Excel LOWER function converts all characters in a text string to lowercase.The syntax of the LOWER function is as below:= LOWER (text)…
Excel LEFT function
The Excel LEFT function returns a substring (a specified number of the characters) from a text string, starting from the leftmost character.The LEFT function is a build-in function in Microsoft Excel and it is categorized as a Text Function.The syntax of the LEFT function is as below:= LEFT(text,[num_chars])…
Excel RIGHT function
The Excel RIGHT function returns a substring (a specified number of the characters) from a text string, starting from the rightmost character.The syntax of the RIGHT function is as below:= RIGHT (text,[num_chars])…
Excel LEN function
The Excel LEN function returns the length of a text string (the number of characters in a text string).The syntax of the LEN function is as below:= LEN(text)…