Suppose you have data that is stored in long format in excel. You want to reshape it to wide format.
The data is shown in the image below : -
Step I : To pull unique values from Column A
Type the following formula in cell D2
Step II : Reshape data from long to wide format
Type the following formula in cell E2
=IF(COLUMN(A1) <=COUNTIF($A$2:$A$100,"="&$D2),OFFSET(INDIRECT("$B"& COUNTIF($A$2:$A$100,"<="&$D1)+2),COLUMN(A1)-1,0),"")
Paste the formula to the right and down so that transformation happens correctly. You can use CTRL + R shortcut key to paste the formula to the right and CTRL + D shortcut key to paste the formula down.
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The data is shown in the image below : -
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| Reshape data from long to wide format |
Step I : To pull unique values from Column A
Type the following formula in cell D2
=IFERROR(INDEX($A$2:$A$100, MATCH(0,COUNTIF($D1:D$1, $A$2:$A$100), 0)),"")Press CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER to confirm this formula as it's an array formula. If this formula is entered correctly, you would see the formula inside the curly brackets {}.
Step II : Reshape data from long to wide format
Type the following formula in cell E2
=IF(COLUMN(A1) <=COUNTIF($A$2:$A$100,"="&$D2),OFFSET(INDIRECT("$B"& COUNTIF($A$2:$A$100,"<="&$D1)+2),COLUMN(A1)-1,0),"")
Paste the formula to the right and down so that transformation happens correctly. You can use CTRL + R shortcut key to paste the formula to the right and CTRL + D shortcut key to paste the formula down.
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The data in Column A must be numbers?
ReplyDeleteI tried text data and got wrong results
yes, it must definitely be numbers, in order
DeleteWe have another formula for extracting unique numbers
DeleteAlternatively you can copy on a different sheet and drop duplicates
The second COUNTIF should be a MATCH() instead. It should be:
ReplyDelete=IF(COLUMN(A1) <=COUNTIF($A$1:$A$100,"="&$D2),OFFSET(INDIRECT("$B"& MATCH($D2,$A$1:$A$100,0)),COLUMN(A1)-1,0),"")