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A Case of a Headache

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Not sure if you knew about this, but in New York every street sign needs to be changed to proper case. At a cost of approximately $27 million, this expenditure is a symbol of government waste, and in New York that is saying something.

I think it's a ridiculous waste of taxpayer money, but a good opportunity to review some of the case changing features in Excel.

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Case changing and checking in Excel

A co-worker of mine came to me with a problem. Say you have a column with mixed upper and lower text, and wanted to switch everything to upper case. The slow way would be to add a helper column, painstakingly insert individual UPPER formulas next to each lower case cell, then individually paste values back into the original column.

Or just use the following formula (and method).

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SearchBox Week, Day 4

Yesterday there was a group of different searches, so today's post will be an amalgam of different code samples and formulas.

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