We need to type out a couple of examples of the results we want. We only need to provide a couple examples of the results we want, and flash fill will fill in the rest.įlash fill can only be used directly to the right of the data we’re trying to transform. Using Flash Fill To Change Text Caseįlash fill is a tool in Excel that helps with simple data transformations. Press Ctrl + C to copy the range of cells ➜ press Ctrl + Alt + V to paste special ➜ choose Values from the paste options. This can be done by copying the range of formulas and pasting them as values with the paste special command. Copy And Paste Formulas As ValuesĪfter using the Excel formulas to change the case of our text, we may want to convert these to values. The function will evaluate to text that is all proper case where each word starts with a capital letter and is followed by lower case letters. The PROPER function takes one argument which is the bit of Text we want to change into proper case. The function will evaluate to text that is all upper case. The UPPER function takes one argument which is the bit of Text we want to change into upper case letters. The function will evaluate to text that is all lower case. The LOWER function takes one argument which is the bit of Text we want to change into lower case letters. There’s a whole category of Excel functions to deal with text, and these three will help us to change the text case. These are the functions we can use in any worksheet in Excel. The first option we’re going to look at is regular Excel functions. I was given the most helpful advice to check the doco :help s\L, which indicated the end replacement is enacted with \e or \E.In this post, we’re going to look at using Excel functions, flash fill, power query, DAX and power pivot to change the case of our text data. thanks, Jim Lumpkin Jimlumpkin(talk) 19:45, 7 October 2020 (UTC) The ? above would hopefully tell the replacement not to force lower case but retain the original 3rd match's case. The second match is forced to lowercase as well as the following 'DeF'. S/\(.\)abc\(.\)DeF\(.\)/\U\1DeF\L\2def ?\3/ the first match is forced to uppercase but also changes the case of the following 'abc'. JohnBeckett 09:58, Ap(UTC) -thank you for helping! I'm looking for an example that will change case in a substitution for matches and then keep the original case in the remainder. I added \C to your command above to make the search case sensitive (it won't skip lowercase words if 'ignorecase' is set, unless \C is present). It also accounts for non-english latin characters. The following will skip single-letter words and words that aren't in uppercase.
Vnoremap ~ y:call setreg('', getregtype(''))gv""Pgv An alternative based on whitespace for word boundaries is: This approach has shortcomings in cases where words may contain what the regular expression recognizes as non-word characters, such as an apostrophe in " I'll" or " she's". The replacement is \u\1\L\2 which substitutes the two subexpressions transformed: The \u converts the first character of what follows to uppercase, while \L converts all of what follows to lowercase. The \(.\) create subexpressions to be recalled with \1 and \2 in the replacement. The following converts the current line to Title Case (all lowercase, except for initial uppercase letters):Įxplanation The search pattern is \ which searches for \ (end of word). The :s substitute command can change case (see :help s/\u). guu Change the current line to lowercase (same as Vu). If you don't select text, pressing u will undo the last change. gUU Change the current line to uppercase (same as VU). If you don't select text, pressing U will undo all changes to the current line. First press v or V then move to select text.
In each example, you can replace ~ with u to convert to lowercase, or with U to convert to uppercase. g~~ Toggle case of the current line (same as V~). g~$ Toggle case of all characters to end of line. g~iw Toggle case of the current word (inner word – cursor anywhere in word). g~3w Toggle case of the next three words. 3~ Toggle case of the next three characters. Examples ~ Toggle case of the character under the cursor, or all visually-selected characters.