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Making caps lowercase?

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    Making caps lowercase?

    I have a column of name/state names in all caps, for example:

    EXAMPLE COMPLEX, NJ

    Is there any way to make all of these lowercase into something like this:

    Example Complex, NJ

    but retain the caps for the state names?

    Thanks.

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    Hi,

    Presuming your capitalized words are in A1, this should work:

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    HTH,

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    Try:

    =PROPER(LEFT(A1,FIND(",",A1)-1))&MID(A1,FIND(",",A1),LEN(A1))

    where A1 houses original string.
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    Awesome, thanks so much that works perfectly.

    The only thing is, there are some complex names that don't have a state attached at the end.

    Right now the function returns !#VALUE if that's the case. Is there a way to get around this so:

    SAN FRANCISCO COMPLEX

    turns into

    San Francisco Complex

    with one formula?

    Thanks.

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    Try:

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