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» Identifying the Case of Letters within Strings

CATEGORY: Excel Text Formulas

VERSIONS: All Microsoft Excel Versions

Problem:

Determining whether each of the names in List1 (column A) are exclusively upper case, exclusively lower case, or a combination of both.

Solution:

Use the IF, EXACT, UPPER, and LOWER functions as shown in the following formula:
=IF(EXACT(A2,UPPER(A2)),"Upper Case",IF(EXACT(A2,LOWER(A2)),"Lower Case","Upper and Lower Case"))

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Identifying the Case of Letters within Strings
Frank wrote on October 28, 2005 03:24 EST

This is crazy but great!
I have no idea for what purposes this can be but I love it.

Frank

Letters within String
anoop wrote on October 28, 2005 23:35 EST

applied very good logic.
Simple formula

Would like to see an Example
DougStroud wrote on December 31, 1969 19:00 EST

Would be very beneficial to see how this formula is used and what results it generated.

Just what I needed
Tim McCarthy wrote on December 31, 1969 19:00 EST

Thank you. This is exactly what I was looking for!!

Just what I needed
Tim McCarthy wrote on December 31, 1969 19:00 EST

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!!

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