Gathering open-ended question text into one sheet
 

I have an Excel file with data from 60 or so respondents to a questionaire.
I have all my raw data on one worksheet. On another worksheet I have totals
for the various questions broken out in various ways. I would like to create
another worksheet that lists the answers to an open-ended question at the end
of the questionaire. Less than half of the people responding wrote comments
so I don't want to include blanks. I'd like to have a consolidated list of
the comments in a tidy, separate sheet.

As yet, I've been unable to figure out how to do this. Any help would be
appreciated.

Just a guess.

Say your data is laid out like:

Column A: Respondent ID
Column B: Question Number
Column C: Response

You could apply data|filter|autofilter to the whole range.
Then filter to show only the question number you want.
Then filter to show the non-blanks.

(I'd leave the data in one worksheet and use the filters, but you could copy
those visible cells to a new sheet if you really, really want.)

DaveCVC wrote:

I have an Excel file with data from 60 or so respondents to a questionaire.
I have all my raw data on one worksheet. On another worksheet I have totals
for the various questions broken out in various ways. I would like to create
another worksheet that lists the answers to an open-ended question at the end
of the questionaire. Less than half of the people responding wrote comments
so I don't want to include blanks. I'd like to have a consolidated list of
the comments in a tidy, separate sheet.

As yet, I've been unable to figure out how to do this. Any help would be
appreciated.

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Dave Peterson