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How to lowercase first letter in Excel

I have a column of text that is camelcase and needs to be lower camelcase:

+---------------+---------------+
| Original      | Desired       |
+---------------+---------------+
| OrderStatus   | orderStatus   |
+---------------+---------------+
| ActiveFlag    | activeFlag    |
+---------------+---------------+
| CancelledFlag | cancelledFlag |
+---------------+---------------+
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Jared Dunham Avatar asked Apr 27 '17 15:04

Jared Dunham


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1 Answers

This will do the trick:

=REPLACE(A2,1,1,LOWER(LEFT(A2)))
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zipa Avatar answered Oct 05 '22 03:10

zipa