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Greg Daughenbaugh
Nov 25, 2017Copper Contributor
Microsoft Excel keeping all cells uppercase
I have a spreadsheet that several people use and would like to keep the text in a particular column always set to upper case. Regardless of case the user enters the data in this column it is saved i...
Haytham Amairah
Nov 25, 2017Silver Contributor
You can use another way, it's forcing users from the beginning to enter uppercase characters through Data Validation feature.
Just follow these steps:
- Select the entire column you want.
- Go to Data Ribbon Tab >> Data Tools Group >> Data Validation
- From Data Validation dialog box, select custom from Allow combo box.
- In the formula bar copy and paste this formula:
=EXACT(A1,UPPER(A1))
- Press OK.
After that, users are not allowed to enter lowercase characters in column A.
NOTE: If you want to apply this to a column other than column A, select that column entirely, and change the cell references in data validation formula.
Peggi21
Mar 18, 2024Copper Contributor
Haytham Amairah That worked great! I just copy and paste into whichever cells I need in Upper Case.
Thanks for being here to answer these questions.