{"id":12097,"date":"2011-11-26T08:52:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T08:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learnexcelmacro.com\/?p=826"},"modified":"2011-11-26T08:52:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T08:52:44","slug":"force-input-to-uppercase-lowercase-in-textbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vmlogger.com\/excel\/2011\/11\/force-input-to-uppercase-lowercase-in-textbox\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I force input to Uppercase or Lowercase in a Textbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At some point of time you may need user to force to Enter in a particular Case in your Excel Macro Text Box. It could be either in a Lower Case or Upper Case. Unfortunately in VBA Text Box, you don&#8217;t have any inbuilt settings to do so. However by writing few lines code under <strong>Textbox Change Event<\/strong> , you can achieve this.<\/p>\n<p>Here in this Article you learn how to achieve all these settings in VBA Textbox.<\/p>\n<p>This is possible by using 2 functions:<strong> 1. <a href=\"https:\/\/vmlogger.com\/excel\/2011\/11\/how-to-force-proper-case-in-textbox\/\">StrConv()<\/a> and 2. LCase or UCase<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>How to force input to Upper case in VBA Textbox:<\/h2>\n<h2> By using <a href=\"https:\/\/vmlogger.com\/excel\/2011\/11\/how-to-force-proper-case-in-textbox\/\">StrConv()<\/a> function in VB<\/h2>\n<pre><code class=\"language-vbnet\">\nPrivate Sub TextBox1_Change()\nTextBox1.Text = StrConv(TextBox1.Text, vbUpperCase)\nEnd Sub\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<h2> By using &#8220;UCase&#8221; function in VB<\/h2>\n<pre><code class=\"language-vbnet\">\nPrivate Sub TextBox1_Change()\nTextBox1.Text = UCase(TextBox1.Text)\nEnd Sub\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<h2>How to force input to Lower case in VBA Textbox:<\/h2>\n<h2> By using <a href=\"https:\/\/vmlogger.com\/excel\/2011\/11\/how-to-force-proper-case-in-textbox\/\">StrConv()<\/a> function in VB<\/h2>\n<pre><code class=\"language-vbnet\">\nPrivate Sub TextBox1_Change()\nTextBox1.Text = StrConv(TextBox1.Text, vbLowerCase)\nEnd Sub\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<h2> By using &#8220;LCase&#8221; function in VB<\/h2>\n<pre><code class=\"language-vbnet\">\nPrivate Sub TextBox1_Change()\nTextBox1.Text = LCase(TextBox1.Text)\nEnd Sub\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><strong> Read This Also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vmlogger.com\/excel\/2011\/11\/textbox-first-letter-in-caps\/\">Textbox first Letter in Caps and Rest other in Lowercase<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vmlogger.com\/excel\/2011\/11\/how-to-force-proper-case-in-textbox\/\">How to force proper case in textbox<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point of time you may need user to force to Enter in a particular Case in your Excel Macro Text Box. 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