Comments on: Proper Case in VBA

By: Ozkan T.

Ozkan T. — Thu, 13 May 2010 13:21:00 +0000

Hello,
If you are using paranthesis you have to assign to a variable. Otherwise you use without paranthesis. But in this subject it does nothing without them

StrConv “test”, vbProperCase ‘No syntax error, but there is no effect

mvar = StrConv (“test”, vbProperCase) ‘in this case mvar is “Test”

Özkan

By: Ian A

Ian A — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:53:00 +0000

Hi There

In repsonse to Paddy’s question, I don’t see any reply to his post,
even though it’s quite old I thought I would answer it might help someone else.
I ran into the smae problem of being prompted with the “=” sign the
solution is quite simple using your example change it to look like this

TheString = StrConv(TheString, vbProperCase)

Ian

By: Paddy Heron

Paddy Heron — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:16:00 +0000

When using strconv can you use a variable inside the bracets i.e.
Strconv(TheString, vbpropercase). When I try it I am propmted with the = sign.
Can anyone help?

By: Ed Brooks

Ed Brooks — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:01:00 +0000

It should be noted that these two functions will return different results. For the string "JAMES, P.D." strconv will return "James, P.d". Application.proper will return the value "James, P.D."

The second example is the preferred result, if you are talking about a surname followed by initials.

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By: Juan Pablo

Juan Pablo — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 19:03:00 +0000

Antro,

When working from outside of Excel, you need to replace "Application" with the object variable that points to Excel, for example instead of

Application.Proper("more proper text")

you'd use

XlApp.Proper("more proper text")

and that's the trick about it...

By: Antro

Antro — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 15:18:00 +0000

Maybe I’m not getting the implementation quite right, but I couldn’t get the worksheet function PROPER to work, but everything gets a little tricky when working with Excel through OLE Automation in Word. But I got the StrConv to work on first try

By: Dick

Dick — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 20:16:00 +0000

Toad: I would guess that calling a worksheet function is slower than a built-in VBA function, but only marginally so. If you were concerned with speed, you would probably want StrConv, but for most applications you can use what you like.

By: Toad

Toad — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 20:11:00 +0000

Is one method inherently preferable? I guess I would have gone straight for the VBA version of the PROPER function, since I’m used to using that function already.