Hello everyone,
Background: I have a set of .txt data I've imported into Excel. It came off a R232 serial port of a Fire Alarm Panel and isn't formatted in comma or tab or even a space delimited pattern. However it is consistently spaced (5 rows between data sets). Each little group (5 rows) of information is for a single Device on the system (ex. Smoke Detector) that has an Device Address, Type, and Description.
Problem: I'm trying to find, with no luck so far, a formula I can fill down that will take into account the spaced pattern.
What I've Tried: Well, being dumb, I first tried doing the first three devices by simple references and seeing if Excel would recognize the pattern -- Nope.
I then tried using the Offsets command like you see in the picture below, but that didn't work either -- it doesn't compound the offset amounts.
Goal: If I can get the devices into a nice list, I can then export a .csv to the Fire Alarm program and not have to manually enter each device (there are over 700 in total!).
Screenshot 2015-04-13 17.12.34.png
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