What you need is a formula which returns when entered in a cell and copied
down... assuming you have your names in Sheet1
Sheet1!B2
Sheet1!C2
Sheet1!D2
Sheet1!E2
Sheet1!B3
Sheet1!C3
Sheet1!D3
Sheet1!E3

You can put an INDIRECT around it and get what you want...

One crude way is to enter on Sheet2
B in E1
C in E2
D in E3
E in E4 and repeat the pattern

Then enter this in F1
=I1&(ROUNDDOWN((ROW()-1)/4,0)+2) and copy down

Then in B2 you can have
=INDIRECT("Sheet1!" & J1) and copy down

I am sure someone else will come up with an elegant formula...sot hat you
can put everything in INDIRECT ...
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"Greg Spencer" wrote:

My toddler's playgroup needs to arrange worksheet data in a bizarre fashion
(one record per every 4 lines) from a conventional worksheet table with one
record per row.

Specifically... we need to take firstname, middle names, surname and
preferred name from consecutive columns of our main worksheet (e.g.
B2,C2,D2,E2)... and produce a sheet formatted so that the first column reads
as follows:

firstname (from B2)
middlename (from C2)
surname (from D2)
preferred name (from E2)
firstname (from B3)
middlename (from C3)
surname (from D3)
preferred name (from E3)

Repeat for up to 50 records...

Sadly, that's just the start of it: I've then got to get an address in one
of the adjacent columns (again over 4 rows per record) and calculated data in
other columns.

Pivot table doesn't really seem to help... and whilst I'm happy to work my
way through help files... I don't even know where to start looking!

Greg.