Upper Case

[Chris Savedge]

Our data entry person has enter all of our contacts into an access table
using all upper case letters.......Is there anyway I can change all of those
names back to the proper form..........meaning can I keep the first letter
upper case and the rest lower case?

Thanks
Chris

 

[Ken Snell [MVP]]

You could run an update query using the StrConv function and its option to
convert to "proper case"...

UPDATE Tablename
SET Fieldname = StrConv([FieldName], 3);

Note that this won't properly handle names with mid-text uppercase letters,
such as MacDonald -- they'll be changed to Macdonald.

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

Yes, but there may be some manual checking and correction required afterward
....

UPDATE tblTest SET tblTest.Text1 = StrConv([Text1],3);

The manual checking and correction arrises because StrConv doesn't always
get personal names right (or names of places, products etc. named after
persons).

? strconv("MCDONALD",vbProperCase)
Mcdonald
? strconv("O'BRIEN",vbProperCase)
O'brien

BTW: vbProperCase is an intrinsic constant, with the numerical value 3. In
VBA code, you can use the constant, as in the second and third examples
above, but in queries, you need to use the numerical value, as in the first
example above.

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