Tag Archives: UPPER

Change the first letter to upper case, first word only please #Excel

Posted on July 19, 2018 by MF

This is a short story of mine, and an imaginary conversation in my head…  How to change the first letter (of first word only) to upper case in Excel? This was a question from a colleague sitting opposite to me.  … Continue reading →

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Writing a long formula in steps

Posted on August 13, 2016 by MF

Writing a long formula is not easy, even for an advanced Excel user.  What I mean long is  a formula with many nested FUNCTIONS within a single formula.  The difficulty I am talking about is not related to whether you understand the … Continue reading →

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Text manipulation with Excel functions

Posted on July 23, 2016 by MF

We talked about RIGHT, LEFT, MID, UPPER, LOWER, PROPER, FIND, SEARCH, REPLACE and SUBSTITUTE in the past few weeks.  Now it’s time to put every thing together to solve a problem.  This is actually the most amazing part of using … Continue reading →

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Case-insensitive SUBSTITUTE???…

Posted on July 16, 2016 by MF

We talked about REPLACE and SUBSTITUTE last week.  At the final note, I said that SUBSTITUTE is case-sensitive.  If we need to perform a case-insensitive SUBSTITUTE, it is indeed not an easy job unless we are talking a single letter … Continue reading →

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UPPER, lower, Proper

Posted on June 25, 2016 by MF

I am wondering why these functions are not available in Word, but Excel? Don’t make me wrong.  I like these functions.  Nevertheless I am not a big fan (nor a small fan) of using Excel as word processor.  Whenever possible, … Continue reading →

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