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Sam55
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Nov 30, 2018

Bring the lines in the column one level up

I have run a dfsview command and I have the list of my DFS shares names like below:

Column1                                                                  Column2

\\contoso.com\testDFS\example       

                                                                                   \\server1\example

 

The colum2 data is one line down than column1 data. I have thousands of lines like this.

How can I bring the contents of Column2 one line above so that the contents of column1 and column2 appear on the same line?

  • When bit more steps.

    1) Delete cell B1 with shifting other cells up

    2) Select column B, Find & Select->Go To Special -> Blanks

    3) Delete->Delete Sheet Rows

    4) 2) Select column A and B, Find & Select->Go To Special -> Blanks

    5) In formula bar type

    =HYPERLINK(A1)

    if A2 is our first blank cell. That shall be a link on the cell previous for first non-blank one.

    6) Press Ctrl+Enter

    Result as here

  • You may delete first cell in second column with shifting cells up. After that you have empty every second row. To remove them select both columns, when Home->Filter&Select->Go to Special. Here select Blanks->Ok. After that Home->Delete->Delete Sheet Rows.

     

    Play on the copy of your data first.

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      Sam55
      Copper Contributor

      The actual file is something like this:

      There could be two values in second column corresponding to one value in the first column:

      \\contoso.com\testDFS\example 
       \\server1\example
       \\server2\example
      \\contoso.com\testDFS\example1 
       \\server1\example1
      \\contoso.com\testDFS\example2 
       \\server3\example2
      \\contoso.com\testDFS\example3 
       \\server2\example3
      \\contoso.com\testDFS\example4 
       \\server3\example4
      \\contoso.com\testDFS\example5 
       \\server3\example4

       

      I want the end result to look like this:

      \\contoso.com\testDFS\example\\server1\example
      \\contoso.com\testDFS\example\\server2\example
      \\contoso.com\testDFS\example1\\server1\example1
      \\contoso.com\testDFS\example2\\server3\example2
      \\contoso.com\testDFS\example3\\server2\example3
      \\contoso.com\testDFS\example4\\server3\example4
      \\contoso.com\testDFS\example5\\server3\example4

       

      Attaching the file.

      • When bit more steps.

        1) Delete cell B1 with shifting other cells up

        2) Select column B, Find & Select->Go To Special -> Blanks

        3) Delete->Delete Sheet Rows

        4) 2) Select column A and B, Find & Select->Go To Special -> Blanks

        5) In formula bar type

        =HYPERLINK(A1)

        if A2 is our first blank cell. That shall be a link on the cell previous for first non-blank one.

        6) Press Ctrl+Enter

        Result as here

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