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rearranging data
I've been set a fairly big project at work and I need to rearrange the
data in an excel sheet. I'll try and explain it as simply as possible. example format at the moment: Name course result Brian geog A Brian maths B Brian phys C Brian Sport C Tom maths B Tom geog A There are roughly 5000 rows with 300 seperate names. format required: Name geog maths phys Brian A B C Tom A A Each student doesnt do the same amount of courses, so there will be blanks (like tom doing phys in example). To make my life even more difficult there is lots of data in the source file I have that doesnt need to be entered onto the final sheet (like brian's sports result in example). at the moment I have the source file sorted alphabetically. What's the best approach to solving this? Any ideas? |
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I'm assuming that Name course result are each in separate tables?
Then create a pivot table. Info on pivot tables can be found he http://www.cpearson.com/excel/pivots.htm -- A hint to posters: Specific, detailed questions are more likely to be answered than questions that provide no detail about your problem. " wrote: I've been set a fairly big project at work and I need to rearrange the data in an excel sheet. I'll try and explain it as simply as possible. example format at the moment: Name course result Brian geog A Brian maths B Brian phys C Brian Sport C Tom maths B Tom geog A There are roughly 5000 rows with 300 seperate names. format required: Name geog maths phys Brian A B C Tom A A Each student doesnt do the same amount of courses, so there will be blanks (like tom doing phys in example). To make my life even more difficult there is lots of data in the source file I have that doesnt need to be entered onto the final sheet (like brian's sports result in example). at the moment I have the source file sorted alphabetically. What's the best approach to solving this? Any ideas? |
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Sorry, the first line of my response should read: I'm assuming that Name
course result are each in separate COLUMNS? -- A hint to posters: Specific, detailed questions are more likely to be answered than questions that provide no detail about your problem. "Dave F" wrote: I'm assuming that Name course result are each in separate tables? Then create a pivot table. Info on pivot tables can be found he http://www.cpearson.com/excel/pivots.htm -- A hint to posters: Specific, detailed questions are more likely to be answered than questions that provide no detail about your problem. " wrote: I've been set a fairly big project at work and I need to rearrange the data in an excel sheet. I'll try and explain it as simply as possible. example format at the moment: Name course result Brian geog A Brian maths B Brian phys C Brian Sport C Tom maths B Tom geog A There are roughly 5000 rows with 300 seperate names. format required: Name geog maths phys Brian A B C Tom A A Each student doesnt do the same amount of courses, so there will be blanks (like tom doing phys in example). To make my life even more difficult there is lots of data in the source file I have that doesnt need to be entered onto the final sheet (like brian's sports result in example). at the moment I have the source file sorted alphabetically. What's the best approach to solving this? Any ideas? |
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criterias:
Column E: holds names (starting with E2) F1: holds geog G1: holds maths H1: holds phys In F2: =IF(ISNA(MATCH(1,(Name=$E2)*(course=F$1),0)),"",IN DEX(result,MATCH(1,(Name=$E2)*(course=F$1),0))) ctrl+shift+enter, not just enter copy across and down as far as needed "Dave F" wrote: Sorry, the first line of my response should read: I'm assuming that Name course result are each in separate COLUMNS? -- A hint to posters: Specific, detailed questions are more likely to be answered than questions that provide no detail about your problem. "Dave F" wrote: I'm assuming that Name course result are each in separate tables? Then create a pivot table. Info on pivot tables can be found he http://www.cpearson.com/excel/pivots.htm -- A hint to posters: Specific, detailed questions are more likely to be answered than questions that provide no detail about your problem. " wrote: I've been set a fairly big project at work and I need to rearrange the data in an excel sheet. I'll try and explain it as simply as possible. example format at the moment: Name course result Brian geog A Brian maths B Brian phys C Brian Sport C Tom maths B Tom geog A There are roughly 5000 rows with 300 seperate names. format required: Name geog maths phys Brian A B C Tom A A Each student doesnt do the same amount of courses, so there will be blanks (like tom doing phys in example). To make my life even more difficult there is lots of data in the source file I have that doesnt need to be entered onto the final sheet (like brian's sports result in example). at the moment I have the source file sorted alphabetically. What's the best approach to solving this? Any ideas? |
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Thank you both for help. As you may've guessed I'm not great with
excel. I've been ploughing through online helpsites but it's going over my head a little. Yes they are in separate columns. so in my example: a1 = name, a2= course, a3=result b1= Brian, b2= geog, b3= A etc and I want, eventually on a new sheet but I can copy across, so for this start on h1 which is out of the way of the columns in the source data (it goes up to F). h1=name, i1=geog, j1=phys, k1=maths .... and columns continue for each new course title h2= brian, i2=A, j2=C, k2=B ... and these columns contain the results from (column a3,b3 etc) I'm not going to be in office until next wednesday. Maybe it'd be a good idea to get a sample sheet from the real data and post a link to it? On 4 Apr, 16:22, Teethless mama wrote: criterias: Column E: holds names (starting with E2) F1: holds geog G1: holds maths H1: holds phys In F2: =IF(ISNA(MATCH(1,(Name=$E2)*(course=F$1),0)),"",IN DEX(result,MATCH(1,(Name=*$E2)*(course=F$1),0))) ctrl+shift+enter, not just enter copy across and down as far as needed "Dave F" wrote: Sorry, the first line of my response should read: I'm assuming that Name course result are each in separate COLUMNS? -- A hint to posters: Specific, detailed questions are more likely to be answered than questions that provide no detail about your problem. "Dave F" wrote: I'm assuming that Name course result are each in separate tables? Then create a pivot table. Info on pivot tables can be found he http://www.cpearson.com/excel/pivots.htm -- A hint to posters: Specific, detailed questions are more likely to be answered than questions that provide no detail about your problem. " wrote: I've been set a fairly big project at work and I need to rearrange the data in an excel sheet. I'll try and explain it as simply as possible. example format at the moment: Name course result Brian geog A Brian maths B Brian phys C Brian Sport C Tom maths B Tom geog A There are roughly 5000 rows with 300 seperate names. format required: Name geog maths phys Brian A B C Tom A A Each student doesnt do the same amount of courses, so there will be blanks (like tom doing phys in example). To make my life even more difficult there is lots of data in the source file I have that doesnt need to be entered onto the final sheet (like brian's sports result in example). at the moment I have the source file sorted alphabetically. What's the best approach to solving this? Any ideas?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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