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Let's read the budget.xlsx workbook into a DataFrame:

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import pandas as pd\n\ndata = pd.read_excel("budget.xlsx")\n\ndata
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upper()

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data["Zone"].str.upper()
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lower()

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data["Store Code"].str.lower()
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title()

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data["City"].str.title()
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replace()

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We will replace the character D in all the elements in the Store Code column with the character D.

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data["Store Code"].str.replace("Z", "D")
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