Convert Selection to Upper Case Using Macros In Excel

When it comes to cleaning up text, Excel Macros can make short work of it. You can create Macros to convert selection to upper case with one click!

Make sure your Excel has the Developer Tab enabled following this tutorial.

I explain how you can do this below step by step!

What does it do?

Converts selected text to upper case

Copy Source Code:

'Make sure you have selected a range first
Sub ConvertSelectionToUpperCase()

Dim rng As Range

For Each rng In Selection
'Check if this is text first, then convert into upper case
If Application.WorksheetFunction.IsText(rng) Then
rng.Value = UCase(rng)
End If
Next

End Sub

Final Result: 

Exercise Workbook:

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This is our text. Let us do some clean up!

STEP 1: Go to Developer > Code > Visual Basic

 

STEP 2: Paste in your code and Select Save. Close the window afterwards.

 

STEP 3: Let us test it out!

Open the sheet containing the data. Go to Developer > Code > Macros

 

Make sure your text and macro are both selected. Click Run.

 

With just one click, all of the cells now converted to upper case!

 

How to Convert Selection to Upper Case Using Macros In Excel