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I need help desparately with PROPER formula...
Can someone please help me? I imported data from another program to Excel,
it is an address database. Some of the entries are all capital, some are all lowercase, some are proper. I would like to switch everything to proper. I have tried numberous times to do EXACTLY what I am reading about copy and pasting, entering the formula, designating the cells I want it to apply to. However, when I do it, nothing changes. I am absolutely confused and frustrated. Can someone please help me resolve this issue. Thank you! -Lauren |
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I need help desparately with PROPER formula...
Let's experiment on a new workbook
Type some stuff in to A1:A5; like Bill Gates, LAUREN, Super Man, etc In cell B1 enter =PROPER(A1) and copy it down to cell B5 Did that work? Get back to us for more. -- Bernard V Liengme www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme remove caps from email "Lauren" wrote in message ... Can someone please help me? I imported data from another program to Excel, it is an address database. Some of the entries are all capital, some are all lowercase, some are proper. I would like to switch everything to proper. I have tried numberous times to do EXACTLY what I am reading about copy and pasting, entering the formula, designating the cells I want it to apply to. However, when I do it, nothing changes. I am absolutely confused and frustrated. Can someone please help me resolve this issue. Thank you! -Lauren |
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I need help desparately with PROPER formula...
"Lauren" wrote in message
... Can someone please help me? I imported data from another program to Excel, it is an address database. Some of the entries are all capital, some are all lowercase, some are proper. I would like to switch everything to proper. I have tried numberous times to do EXACTLY what I am reading about copy and pasting, entering the formula, designating the cells I want it to apply to. However, when I do it, nothing changes. I am absolutely confused and frustrated. Can someone please help me resolve this issue. Thank you! Here's one way .......... If your data is say in cells A1 to A100 then in cell B1 put =PROPER(A1) and copy this down through all the cells to B100 Hey presto, all the cells in column B will display the 'proper' version of column A Then if you like you can copy all the cells in column B 'Paste Special' into column A (selecting the values option from the dialogue box) Then delete column B Hope this helps |
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I need help desparately with PROPER formula...
OK, what I am doing right now:
My worksheet has 925 rows and colums B-I. In Colum J, I typed =PROPER(B2:B925) However, If I try to copy and paste special, it doesnt apply to all of them. Do I really have to do it each individual column and use the fill handle and stuff? There isnt an easier way without using a macro? Something where I could type in =PROPER(B2:I925) and it apply to all rows and colums? If not, then this is still better than retyping everything. Thanks for any help. "Bernard Liengme" wrote: Let's experiment on a new workbook Type some stuff in to A1:A5; like Bill Gates, LAUREN, Super Man, etc In cell B1 enter =PROPER(A1) and copy it down to cell B5 Did that work? Get back to us for more. -- Bernard V Liengme www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme remove caps from email "Lauren" wrote in message ... Can someone please help me? I imported data from another program to Excel, it is an address database. Some of the entries are all capital, some are all lowercase, some are proper. I would like to switch everything to proper. I have tried numberous times to do EXACTLY what I am reading about copy and pasting, entering the formula, designating the cells I want it to apply to. However, when I do it, nothing changes. I am absolutely confused and frustrated. Can someone please help me resolve this issue. Thank you! -Lauren |
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I need help desparately with PROPER formula...
Thats what I did. What I meant was, can't I select ALL the cells I need it
to apply too, such as A2 through H925 and apply it to ALL the cells. Not just one column at a time. Which this way I am doing A2 through A925, I type in the formula in I2 (which is my first available BLANK cell) then I used the fill handle to take that down to I925. Clicked Copy, then did paste special over cells A2 through A925. Then I deleted column I's information then did cells B2 through B925 by typing in column I "=PROPER(B2)" then fill handling that down to I925 again and so on and so forth. So I am doing each column individually. Is there an easier way besides doing each individual column?? "Black Knight" wrote: "Lauren" wrote in message ... Can someone please help me? I imported data from another program to Excel, it is an address database. Some of the entries are all capital, some are all lowercase, some are proper. I would like to switch everything to proper. I have tried numberous times to do EXACTLY what I am reading about copy and pasting, entering the formula, designating the cells I want it to apply to. However, when I do it, nothing changes. I am absolutely confused and frustrated. Can someone please help me resolve this issue. Thank you! Here's one way .......... If your data is say in cells A1 to A100 then in cell B1 put =PROPER(A1) and copy this down through all the cells to B100 Hey presto, all the cells in column B will display the 'proper' version of column A Then if you like you can copy all the cells in column B 'Paste Special' into column A (selecting the values option from the dialogue box) Then delete column B Hope this helps |
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I need help desparately with PROPER formula...
Lauren,
what you could have done is to highlight all the cells you want the formula to apply to first (i.e. J2 to Q925). Then enter the formula =PROPER(B2) but do CTRL-Enter rather than just <Enter and this will fill the formula for you automatically. Pete |
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I need help desparately with PROPER formula...
Sorry, to complete what you asked for ...
The area where the formulae have been copied will still be highlighted, so click <copy then Edit | Paste Special | Values | OK and <esc or <enter. This will fix the values in place, then highlight columns B to I by clicking on the column identifiers and Edit | Delete. I think you will find this to be quicker than how you did it before. Incidentally, you could have copied the formula from J2 to K2:Q2, then highlighted J2:Q2 and double-clicked the fill handle - this would also have been quicker than the way you described. Pete |
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I need help desparately with PROPER formula...
No, I wrote =PROPER(A1)
and drag the fill handle down the column This is a fundamental skill in Excel - typing a single formula and them making it apply to various rows in a column -- Bernard V Liengme www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme remove caps from email "Lauren" wrote in message ... OK, what I am doing right now: My worksheet has 925 rows and colums B-I. In Colum J, I typed =PROPER(B2:B925) However, If I try to copy and paste special, it doesnt apply to all of them. Do I really have to do it each individual column and use the fill handle and stuff? There isnt an easier way without using a macro? Something where I could type in =PROPER(B2:I925) and it apply to all rows and colums? If not, then this is still better than retyping everything. Thanks for any help. "Bernard Liengme" wrote: Let's experiment on a new workbook Type some stuff in to A1:A5; like Bill Gates, LAUREN, Super Man, etc In cell B1 enter =PROPER(A1) and copy it down to cell B5 Did that work? Get back to us for more. -- Bernard V Liengme www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme remove caps from email "Lauren" wrote in message ... Can someone please help me? I imported data from another program to Excel, it is an address database. Some of the entries are all capital, some are all lowercase, some are proper. I would like to switch everything to proper. I have tried numberous times to do EXACTLY what I am reading about copy and pasting, entering the formula, designating the cells I want it to apply to. However, when I do it, nothing changes. I am absolutely confused and frustrated. Can someone please help me resolve this issue. Thank you! -Lauren |
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I need help desparately with PROPER formula...
"Lauren" wrote in message ... Thats what I did. What I meant was, can't I select ALL the cells I need it to apply too, such as A2 through H925 and apply it to ALL the cells. Not just one column at a time. Which this way I am doing A2 through A925, I type in the formula in I2 (which is my first available BLANK cell) then I used the fill handle to take that down to I925. Clicked Copy, then did paste special over cells A2 through A925. Then I deleted column I's information then did cells B2 through B925 by typing in column I "=PROPER(B2)" then fill handling that down to I925 again and so on and so forth. So I am doing each column individually. Is there an easier way besides doing each individual column?? If you're using Sheet1 in your workbook you could put the formula in the corresponding cells in Sheet2 Like this =PROPER(Sheet1!A1) Copy this to all the corresponding cells in Sheet2 and it will display the 'Proper' formats of the cells from Sheet1 Then you could copy and paste special all the cells from Sheet2 back to Sheet1 |
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I need help desparately with PROPER formula...
Hi Lauren,
I expect you are straight on use of the worksheet formula now and use of the fill handle. If not more on fill handle see http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/fillhand.htm if this is an adjacent cell you can probably double-click on the fill handle, but it usually means verifying that you did reach down as far as you wanted. In any case as Bernard stated it is basic Excel skills so you should learn it before learning to use macros (even if by only a few minutes). But it sounds like you want to select the area and make the changes in place, that is where a macro comes in, macro is a lot quicker See http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/proper.htm --- HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001] My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm "Lauren" wrote in message ... Thats what I did. What I meant was, can't I select ALL the cells I need it to apply too, such as A2 through H925 and apply it to ALL the cells. Not just one column at a time. |
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