Change formatting of Data
Hello, first time poster here so hope I have done it correctly....
I work in a lab and we have an old system that generates data in the format in the attached file where it can only generate 4 rows and after this it makes another column.
Book1.xlsx
Is there an easy way to group the headings together using a formula or option so it looks like the below?
Book2.xlsx
Thank you in advance
will it always be that number of columns ?
VSTACK() may help here
=VSTACK(A2:G4,H2:N4,O2:U4,V2:AB4)
you could just add the arrays to the maximum columns likely as its always 4 rows , then you will get zeros
may be able to use some sort of control to stop that
but whats the max columns likely to be produced from the system
Wayne
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I think it will help if you had the derived data in a separate sheet, so insert a new sheet and copy your row of headings into A1:G1. Then you can use this formula in cell A2 of the new sheet:
=INDEX(Sheet1!$2:$4,MOD(ROWS($1:1)-1,3)+1,(INT((ROWS($1:1)-1)/3))*7+COLUMNS($A:A))
Copy this across to G2, then copy those 7 formulae down as far as you need them.
Hope this helps.
Pete
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