ACC2000: How to Find Records That Have Uppercase, Lowercase, or Mixed-Case Data

This article shows you how to create a query that returns records that have the data in a particular case (for example, uppercase, lowercase, or mixed case). For example, assume that the following data is in the table: Use one of the following methods to find the data in the case that you want.

Method 1: To Find All the Records in a Field That Contain Uppercase Text

1. Create a new query in Design view.
2. In the Show Table dialog box, click the table that contains the data, and then click Add.
3. Add the field that contains the data to the query design grid.
4. In the next open Field cell in the query design grid, type or paste the following:
   Upper:StrComp(UCase([Field1]), [Field1],0)
5. In the Criteria row under Upper, type 0.

Method 2: To Find All the Records in a Field That Contain Lowercase Text

1. Create a new query in Design view.
2. In the Show Table dialog box, click the table that contains the data, and then click Add.
3. Add the field that contains the data to the query design grid.
4. In the next open Field cell in the query design grid, type or paste the following:
   Lower:StrComp(LCase([Field1]), [Field1],0)
5. In the Criteria row under Lower, type 0.

Method 3: To Find All the Records in a Field That Contain Mixed-Case Text

1. Create a new query in Design view.
2. In the Show Table dialog box, click the table that contains the data, and then click Add.
3. Add the field that contains the data to the query design grid.
4. In the next open Field cell in the query design grid, type the following:
   Upper:StrComp(UCase([Field1]), [Field1],0)
5. In the Criteria row under Upper, type <> 0.
6. In the next open Field cell in the query design grid, type the following:
   Lower:StrComp(LCase([Field1]), [Field1],0)
7. In the Criteria row under Lower, type <> 0.