Change to Capitalize First Letter Only

ASAP Utilities › Text › 4. Change to Capitalize First Letter Only

This tool capitalizes the first letter it finds in each selected cell and leaves the rest of the content unchanged.
It works on both plain values and formulas. For example:

"pending approval" becomes "Pending approval"

"123 test" becomes "123 Test"

"HELLO world" stays "HELLO world" (unchanged, since the first letter is already uppercase)

"example: Already Mixed" becomes "Example: Already Mixed" This is useful when you want sentence-style capitalization for things like labels, product descriptions, or task names, without changing the rest of the text or applying full title case.

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Practical tricks on how this can help you

Practical 'real world' examples on our blog that show you how this tool can help you in Excel. Enjoy!

Tip: Quickly change the text-case in all selected cells at once

Starting this tool

Click ASAP Utilities › Text › 4. Change to Capitalize First Letter Only
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Change to lowercase

Change to Capitalize First Letter and Lowercase the Rest

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