Proper Name Case Converter

Apply proper capitalization to names.

Dear NIK AND ALEX,

There is no better way to ruin the personalization in a direct mail or e-mail campaign than poorly capitalized Jean-marcs, Mcdonalds and JOEs. Banish bad capitalization from your marketing toolkit with the Proper Name Case Converter.

The Proper Name Case Converter applies proper capitalization across a swath of common name-types.

Instructions

From Excel, copy all the names in your worksheet into the box on the left and click the button below. Copy and paste the results from the right-side box back into Excel and you’re done!

Depending on your internet connection, Name Case can whip through 10,000 names in about six seconds.

Developers can download the script and work it in to their own applications.

Copy your names below

DR. JOHN GROVE WHITE RICHARD GRAHAM-NICHOLS GORDON SAINT JOHN EIÐUR SMÁRI GUÐJOHNSEN JEAN-MARC BRÉZÉ WILLIAM VAN DER MEIR ROGER SYMS III D'ARTAGNE ST.JOHN-O'MALEY

License and contact

Written by Alex Dunae at Dialect (code[at]dialect[dot]ca), 2008.
Distributed under the GNU General Public License 3.0.

Updates

November 5, 2008

Added support for tabs and e-mail addresses via the web interface and improved the capitalization of Mac* names.

November 3, 2008

Update to handle roman numerals followed by a comma (e.g. Syms III, Roger).