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making three columns one, while tripling the number of rows used

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    Question making three columns one, while tripling the number of rows used

    HI,
    I have an issue I need a solution for . I use Excel 2010 and have a 15k row spreadsheet with 3 columns. 1,3,5.
    I need to have the following occur
    Column 1 stays in same position. Column 3 moves under column 1 in next row while the information in the cell is moved down two rows. The column 5 is then moved into the blank cell in column 1.
    So in the example
    A1,A3,A5 and B1 will become A1, B1, C1, and D1

    Can someone please help me as I have to do this for about 15k rows in a spreadsheet. I do have some scripting experience but measure myself as a beginner in VBA.
    Thank you
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    Re: making three columns one, while tripling the number of rows used

    Hi,

    Can you upload an example workbook which clearly shows a before and after position. It's not clear, at least to me, exactly what you mean.
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    Re: making three columns one, while tripling the number of rows used

    here is the upload if What I so badly explained.
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    Re: making three columns one, while tripling the number of rows used

    In that case why not just add 5 extra rows at the top, copy what was A:E1 (now A6:E6) and paste special transpose back to A1
    Select rows 2,4 & 6 and delete them.

    Encapsulate that in a macro if necessary.

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    Re: making three columns one, while tripling the number of rows used

    You have transposed the first three columns in to rows, but not the second one. Are you going to do the same to every other row, i.e., row 1 transposed, row 2 remains the same, then row 3 transposed?
    You said you have 15k rows, but your sample is too small for that size of data, so perhaps you need to increase your sample to see how the data should be formatted.

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    Re: making three columns one, while tripling the number of rows used

    Every row will be made into three rows for all 15k rows to equal 45k rows in one single column.
    I was wondering how to do this easily in Excel.
    thank you,
    Last edited by tomcoll67; 04-01-2013 at 10:28 PM. Reason: add infomration

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    Re: making three columns one, while tripling the number of rows used

    It is still not clear to me, neither have not changed your sample , but here we go.

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    Last edited by AB33; 04-02-2013 at 04:11 AM.

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