Use the PROPER function to capitalize names in Excel When you think about Excel functions you probably think about performing calculations with numbers. As already mentioned the Excel OR function is case-insensitive by nature. The formula uses PROPER LEFT and LEN to take the string in column A trim off the last two characters and pass the result to the PROPER function.
Use PROPER to capitalize each word in a given string.
The result is Smith Emma 1235 and corresponds to the format shown in cell I1. The PROPER function will automatically reformat the text so that all words are capitalized. All letters in text will be converted to lower case before the first letter in each word is. Cell H4 contains the formula PROPER D4 C4 B4 which converts the text from cells B4 C4 and D4 using the PROPER function and concatenates the content.