Re: Excel Formula to change Title Fields into APA Format (in terms of Capitalization)

From: scott bacon <sdanielbacon_at_nyob>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 08:42:48 -0400
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Random case, the Comic Sans of case conversion options...


On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 5:01 PM Lolis, John <jlolis_at_whiteplainsny.gov>
wrote:

> Let us also not forget that venerable editor, Notepad++, which has eight
> different case conversion options, including sentence case and "blend" case
> conversion selections (whatever that does).
>
> buT wHy WoUlD ANyoNe wanT tO usE rANdom cASe?
>
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> On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 at 14:12, Kate Deibel <
> 0000001fd0f2bb98-dmarc-request_at_lists.clir.org> wrote:
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> > Not sure what the original casing looks like, but Excel does have the
> > PROPER() function that capitalizes the first letter of each word. To do
> > more, you're going to need a custom function. Plus, you're always going
> to
> > run into edge cases like words that that meant to be in all caps like IBM
> > or partially all caps like FRBRization. I can think of some heuristic
> > approaches that one could do in VBA. I kinda wish I had time to code this
> > up.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG> On Behalf Of
> Mackenzie
> > M. Salisbury
> > Sent: Monday, June 17, 2019 3:24 PM
> > To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG
> > Subject: [CODE4LIB] Excel Formula to change Title Fields into APA Format
> > (in terms of Capitalization)
> >
> > Hi all!
> >
> > Does anyone know of an Excel Formula to change Title Fields into APA
> > Format (in terms of Capitalization)? Or a way to make a batch change in
> > another program? I've seen the one off copy and paste website, but
> nothing
> > that would handle more than one title at a time.
> >
> >
> > Best!
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