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Offset function with inconsisent data location
I have been trying to use the offset function, but I guess I don't understand
the functionality enough to customize, so here is the issue. I have one column of data which contains a firm name, address, city, state, zip. I want to move that data from the rows to new columns with those titles, so the data can be used more effectively.The problem is the data is incomplete, so it looks like this: Engineer John Smith <blank <blank Jane Smith <blank <blank <blank <blank John Doe 123 Main St Anywhere, TX 78101 I need to get to: Col1 Col2 Col 3 Engineer Address City,State,Zip I am having difficulty since there is no consistency to the number of blank rows in the original column, but I cannot simply delete them since there is data in those rows in other columns. Does that make sense? Please help, thanks. |
Offset function with inconsisent data location
Is there anything there to help determine where the names end and addresses
begin? Is it always in the 10th and 11th rows? I could imagine you'd be able to put in cell B2 =IF(A2"",A10,"") and in C2, =IF(A2"",A11,"") can copy the formula from the formula bar and paste individually down to B9 and C9, then copy and paste the range B2:C9 and paste down yoru rows. but, this does depend upon the address always being in the 10th and 11th rows of an 11 row set. If the data is more strewn than that, you'll need some sort of key in another column that can be referred to at least. "debinnyc" wrote: I have been trying to use the offset function, but I guess I don't understand the functionality enough to customize, so here is the issue. I have one column of data which contains a firm name, address, city, state, zip. I want to move that data from the rows to new columns with those titles, so the data can be used more effectively.The problem is the data is incomplete, so it looks like this: Engineer John Smith <blank <blank Jane Smith <blank <blank <blank <blank John Doe 123 Main St Anywhere, TX 78101 I need to get to: Col1 Col2 Col 3 Engineer Address City,State,Zip I am having difficulty since there is no consistency to the number of blank rows in the original column, but I cannot simply delete them since there is data in those rows in other columns. Does that make sense? Please help, thanks. |
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