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JayNixon
Jul 15, 2019Copper Contributor
Concatenating column B values if left adjacent cell is empty
I need to combine cells in column B if the value in the cell to the left is blank while also deleting the blank cell to the left to close any gaps between cells in Column A. The best way for me to ex...
- Jul 16, 2019
I revised the macro to allow up to 200 more rows of results in case of overflow, as well as up to 165 characters in next pass through the concatenation loop. When an overflow situation is detected, the server name will be repeated as often as needed to get all software names listed on additional rows.
Sub Sequelize() Dim rg As Range Dim delimiter As String, s As String Dim i As Long, k As Long, n As Long, nData As Long Dim vData As Variant, vResults As Variant delimiter = ", " Set rg = Range("A2").CurrentRegion Set rg = rg.Offset(1, 0).Resize(rg.Rows.Count - 1, rg.Columns.Count) n = rg.Rows.Count nData = Application.CountA(rg.Columns(1)) nData = nData + 200 'Allow for servers whose software list exceeds 32,767 characters vData = rg.Value ReDim vResults(1 To nData, 1 To 2) For i = 1 To n If vData(i, 1) <> "" Then k = k + 1 vResults(k, 1) = vData(i, 1) If s <> "" Then If i > 1 Then vResults(k - 1, 2) = Left$(s, 32767) End If s = IIf(vData(i, 2) = "", "", vData(i, 2)) Else If vData(i, 2) <> "" Then If s = "" Then s = vData(i, 2) Else s = s & delimiter & vData(i, 2) End If End If End If 'Overflow occurs if you put more than 32,767 characters in a cell. This block allows up to 165 characters (plus delimiter) in next pass through loop. If Len(s) > 32600 Then If (i < n) And (vData(i + 1, 1) = "") Then vResults(k, 2) = s vResults(k + 1, 1) = vResults(k, 1) s = "" k = k + 1 End If End If Next If s <> "" Then vResults(k, 2) = Left$(s, 32767) rg.ClearContents rg.Resize(nData, 2).Value = vResults End Sub
SergeiBaklan
Jul 15, 2019MVP
Here is the Power Query version. Applications are sorted alphabetically in the list.
JayNixon
Jul 15, 2019Copper Contributor
I have never used Power Query. This is something I will have to research more as I haven't the slightest clue how to utilize it. I see it works beautifully. I will start my reading now.
- SergeiBaklanJul 15, 2019MVP
Macro which Brad suggested works fine, but if you never used VBA it also takes time to learn how it works. VBA is much more universal, but, from my point of view, Power Query is more suitable for data transform tasks.