Uncreative Labs

Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 261 Location: WisConSin

Need windows Utility that can convert uppercase characters to lower case via simple copy paste in windows

My dilema is that I have literally thousands of lines of work instructions copied out of a dos upper case only program into excel and I need the text in lower case to fit properly in the width of the forms we will be publishing w/ adobe.

Seems stupid but I would like to find a utility that can change the case of all characters instantly without having to *gasp
retype everything. (sadly I have never seen a windows utility that does this with less effort than retyping it all)

Thanx
Ryan

Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 11:14 pm

http://www.digdb.com/excel_add_ins/convert_upper_lower_proper_case/

quick google Wink

Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:16 am

Can you copy and paste? Does it have to be a Windows application, or can it be a web application?

It'd be fairly easy to write a program that converts a string to upper case or lower case in PHP. You'll have to copy and paste in, and copy and paste out, but without some much harder (I'd have to first learn how to do it) hooks to the clipboard, you can't copy -> uppercase -> paste.

Of course, the site bear found may do what you want better than you thought you wanted. (-;

Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:01 am

http://uncreativelabs.net/personal/Puckdropper/textmanip.php

A few words of warning:
1. Unicode characters might break this.
2. The textarea fields may have a limit placed on them by the browser. If you're doing a real huge document, you may need to break it up in to smaller chunks. (We're talking 16k+)

Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 261 Location: WisConSin

Actually I found I can copy into word, use the Change Case pull down and then copy back into excel.

Thanx for the suggestions
Ryan

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:22 am

That's probably the best way. Word and excel are usually bound pretty tight, so you won't have problems with one over the other.