Question

All text field values in my database had been converted to upper case. I would like to restore, column by column, certain text entries to either lowercase or proper case.

The pseudocode that I have in mind is something like:

for each entry in column x of recordset y
entry = strconv(entry,3)
end 

This would be easier I could simply click on my tables in design view and change a property, but I don’t see anything like this.

Answer 1

Try:

SELECT Table1.atext, 
       UCase(Left([atext],1)) & LCase(Mid([atext],2)) AS SConv
FROM Table1;

An UPDATE query BACKUP FIRST

UPDATE Table1 SET atext = UCase(Left([atext],1)) & LCase(Mid([atext],2)) 
WHERE AText Is Not Null

Note

In this case, it seems that there was a Format added to the table that forced upper case. For the most part, I reckon formats in tables should be avoided. They are more appropriate to queries and forms.