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Excel 2000 in a Nutshell
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Excel 2000 in a Nutshell

by Jinjer Simon
August 2000
Beginner to intermediate
608 pages
17h 15m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

PROPER

Synopsis

Use PROPER to capitalize the first letter in a string and any other letters that are preceded by a non-letter character. All other letters are converted to lowercase. For example, “This is a BOX” is converted to “This Is A Box.”

To Calculate

=PROPER(Text)

Example

Figure 18-5 illustrates how to use PROPER to convert a string so that only the first letter of each word is capitalized.

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