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Consolidating Data
I am very grateful for your help with this!
=INDEX(A2:I2,MATCH(1,N(NOT(ISBLANK(A2:I2))),0))&" "&LEFT(INDEX($A$1:$I$1,MATCH(1,N(NOT(ISBLANK(A2:I2))),0)),1)
Maybe with this formula if you want to return e.g. "monthly W ". Enter the formula with ctrl+shift+enter if you don't work with Office365 or 2021.
OliverScheurich This looks wonderful! 🙂 I forgot that sometimes there is multiple visits a week. Is there a way to add this too? Like "Weekly M, W, F" etc.
Now i understand that within the same week there is either "weekly" or "monthly" or "bi-weekly" and so on. Therefore the result can be e.g. "weekly M W F" but never e.g. "weekly W bi-weekly T".
A solution could be this formula which seems to work in my spreadsheet:
=IF(COUNTA(A2:I2)=1,INDEX(A2:I2,MATCH(1,N(NOT(ISBLANK(A2:I2))),0))&" "&LEFT(INDEX($A$1:$I$1,MATCH(1,N(NOT(ISBLANK(A2:I2))),0)),1),IF(COUNTA(A2:I2)=2,INDEX(A2:I2,MATCH(1,N(NOT(ISBLANK(A2:I2))),0))&" "&LEFT(INDEX($A$1:$I$1,MATCH(1,N(NOT(ISBLANK(A2:I2))),0)),1)&" "&LEFT(INDEX($A$1:$I$1,SMALL(IF(A2:I2<>"",COLUMN($A:$I)),2)),1),IF(COUNTA(A2:I2)=3,INDEX(A2:I2,MATCH(1,N(NOT(ISBLANK(A2:I2))),0))&" "&LEFT(INDEX($A$1:$I$1,MATCH(1,N(NOT(ISBLANK(A2:I2))),0)),1)&" "&LEFT(INDEX($A$1:$I$1,SMALL(IF(A2:I2<>"",COLUMN($A:$I)),2)),1)&" "&LEFT(INDEX($A$1:$I$1,SMALL(IF(A2:I2<>"",COLUMN($A:$I)),3)),1),IF(COUNTA(A2:I2)=4,INDEX(A2:I2,MATCH(1,N(NOT(ISBLANK(A2:I2))),0))&" "&LEFT(INDEX($A$1:$I$1,MATCH(1,N(NOT(ISBLANK(A2:I2))),0)),1)&" "&LEFT(INDEX($A$1:$I$1,SMALL(IF(A2:I2<>"",COLUMN($A:$I)),2)),1)&" "&LEFT(INDEX($A$1:$I$1,SMALL(IF(A2:I2<>"",COLUMN($A:$I)),3)),1)&" "&LEFT(INDEX($A$1:$I$1,SMALL(IF(A2:I2<>"",COLUMN($A:$I)),4)),1),IF(COUNTA(A2:I2)=5,INDEX(A2:I2,MATCH(1,N(NOT(ISBLANK(A2:I2))),0))&" "&LEFT(INDEX($A$1:$I$1,MATCH(1,N(NOT(ISBLA NK(A2:I2))),0)),1)&" "&LEFT(INDEX($A$1:$I$1,SMALL(IF(A2:I2<>"",COLUMN($A:$I)),2)),1)&" "&LEFT(INDEX($A$1:$I$1,SMALL(IF(A2:I2<>"",COLUMN($A:$I)),3)),1)&" "&LEFT(INDEX($A$1:$I$1,SMALL(IF(A2:I2<>"",COLUMN($A:$I)),4)),1)&" "&LEFT(INDEX($A$1:$I$1,SMALL(IF(A2:I2<>"",COLUMN($A:$I)),5)),1),"")))))- Yes! So there is never a mix of biweekly, weekly or monthly in a week. Only multiple weekly visits. So we might have a situation that a technician is visiting Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Never a random Bi-Weekly or Monthly visit within that though.
=IF(COUNTA(A2:I2)>1,INDEX(A2:I2,SMALL(IF(A2:I2<>"",COLUMN($A:$I)),1))&" "&LEFT(LEFT(INDEX($A$1:$I$1,SMALL(IF(A2:I2<>"",COLUMN($A:$I)),1)),1),1)&" "&INDEX(A2:I2,SMALL(IF(A2:I2<>"",COLUMN($A:$I)),2))&" "&LEFT(INDEX($A$1:$I$1,SMALL(IF(A2:I2<>"",COLUMN($A:$I)),2)),1),INDEX(A2:I2,MATCH(1,N(NOT(ISBLANK(A2:I2))),0))&" "&LEFT(INDEX($A$1:$I$1,MATCH(1,N(NOT(ISBLANK(A2:I2))),0)),1))This could be a solution if there are one or two visits a week. This formula would become more complicated if there were three or four or five visits a week.
However i'm sure that there is an easier solution in Excel versions 2013 and newer. If you work with Office365 or 2021 a possibility can be using formulas like LET and TEXTJOIN.