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    Extracting useful information from excel spreadsheet

    Hi everyone,

    I've got an excel spreadsheet with large amounts of data but not all of them are useful.

    Is there a formula which could help me extract the data (and exclude the other useless information) that I need and help tabulate it on a separate worksheet?

    Sample:
    I've reproduced a sample of what the data looks like. In this case, I'm trying to extract specific rows of information while leaving out the rest.

    I hope I am making sense to you all.
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    Re: Extracting useful information from excel spreadsheet

    Assuming that Sheet1 is an example of your raw data - what does your required output look like?
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    Re: Extracting useful information from excel spreadsheet

    Well...

    Basically I would like it to look like:

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    Re: Extracting useful information from excel spreadsheet

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    Re: Extracting useful information from excel spreadsheet

    Sorry won't happen again. I'm just interested in getting as many opinions as possible.

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    Re: Extracting useful information from excel spreadsheet

    Quote Originally Posted by cheoksoon View Post
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    Re: Extracting useful information from excel spreadsheet

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    Re: Extracting useful information from excel spreadsheet

    Oeldere. I have read that link and I found it very interesting.

    I will post a comment on Excelguru for you to read.

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