VBA StrConv

What Does StrConv Do in Excel VBA?

In VBA StrConv stands for “String Conversion”. Using this VBA function we can convert the supplied string to the specified format. One thing you need to understand here is we can use this formula as a VBA function only not as Excel worksheet function. In this article, we will take a tour on complete detailed examples of “VBA StrConv” formula.

Ok, look at the syntax of StrConv function.

String: This is nothing but the text we are trying to convert.

Conversion: What kind of conversion we need to do. We have a wide variety of options here below are the list of conversions we can perform.

• vbUpperCase or 1: This option converts the supplied Text value to Upper case character. This works similar to the UCASE function. For example, if you supply the word “Excel” it will convert to “EXCEL”
• vbLowerCase or 2: This option converts the supplied Text value to Lower case character. This works similar to LCASE function. For example, if you supply the word “Excel” it will convert to “excel”
• vbProperCase or 3: This option converts the supplied Text value to Proper case character. Every first character of the word will is converted to upper case and all the remaining letters are converted to lower case. For example, if you supply the word “excEL” it will convert to “Excel”.
• vbUniCode or 64: This option converts string to Unicode code.
• vbFromUnicode or 128: This converts the string Unicode to the default system code.

Even though we have several other options with Conversion argument above three are good enough for us.

LCID: This is the Locale Id. By default, it takes the system id. This will not use 99% of the time.

Examples of StrConv Function in Excel VBA

Below are examples of Excel VBA StrConv Function.

Example #1

Now take a look at the example of converting the string to UPPER CASE character. I am using the word “Excel vba” here. Below is the VBA code.

Code:

Sub StrConv_Example1()

    Dim TextValues As String
    Dim Result As String

    TextValues = "Excel vba"

    Result = StrConv(TextValues, vbUpperCase)

    MsgBox Result

End Sub

This will convert the string “Excel vba” to upper case.

Run this code using F5 key or manually and see the result of the same.

Example #2

Now take a look at the same string with lower case conversion. Below is the code.

Code:

Sub StrConv_Example2()

    Dim TextValues As String
    Dim Result As String

    TextValues = "Excel vba"

    Result = StrConv(TextValues, vbLowerCase)

    MsgBox Result

End Sub

This will convert the string “Excel vba” to lower case.

You can run manually or through excel shortcut key F5. Below is the result of the same.

Example #3

Now take a look at the same string with proper case conversion. Below is the code.

Code:

Sub StrConv_Example3()

    Dim TextValues As String
    Dim Result As String

    TextValues = "Excel vba"

    Result = StrConv(TextValues, vbProperCase)

    MsgBox Result

End Sub

This will convert the string “Excel vba” to proper case. Every first letter of the string is upper case and every letter after space is also converted to upper case and all the remaining characters will be converted to lower case. Below is the result of the same.

Example #4

Now take a look at the example of UniCode character. Look at the below code.

Code:

Sub StrConv_Example4()

  Dim i As Long
  Dim x() As Byte
  x = StrConv("ExcelVBA", vbFromUnicode)
  For i = 0 To UBound(x)
  Debug.Print x(i)
 Next

End Sub

This will print all the Unicode characters to the immediate window.

In ASCII code “E” Unicode is 69, “x” Unicode is 120 and so on. Like this using VBA StrConv, we can convert the string to Unicode.

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