Forum Discussion
How do I auto-populate information from one tab to another in sheets?
- Are you willing to manually enter the name of each new tab into a cell on the "Master" sheet?
- Is all the information on each individual sheet organized in exactly the same way? Are they all laid out identically?
- Finally, could you upload a sample of the actual master and backup sheets?
If the answers to #1 and #2 are both "Yes," then it should be fairly easy to write a formula or two that would retrieve the information from each new sheet and populate the master sheet with the data. But an actual example of your workbook (devoid of any confidential or personal information) would be most helpful.
Not sure if that makes sense for example:
on sheet 1 I have
“Katie” “Assignment 1 F+”
“Hayley” “Assignment 1 A+
“Katie” “Assignment 2 C-“
“hayley” “assignment 2 B+”
Is there a way to make it auto generate in sheet two:
Katie “assignment 1 F+”
Katie “assignment 2 C-“
And in sheet three
hayley “assignment 1A+”
“Assignment 2 B+”
I don’t necessarily need the names repeated but if the names trigger the next cell to be auto generated in a separate sheet? Does that make sense? Do you know?
You wrote: Do you know if there’s a way for excel to recognize a word and then put the thing next to it into a separate sheet?
And the answer, typical for Excel, is that there no doubt are multiple ways to do it.
But also, typical for Excel, it makes a LOT of difference how you're entering that data in the first place, what the whole process is, what the desired outcome is.
If I were creating something along the lines you hint at--which I assume is a way to track grades for a class in school and have Katie's and Hayley's grades all summarized neatly, maybe averaged, etc.
One thing to keep in mind is that Excel is really good at taking what I'll call "clean data" in a consolidated database, and then extracting meaningful subsets of it. I've attached a sample of what's possible. Note that on the DB sheet, each of those data elements is it's own column--that's what makes it "clean".
Then on the Individual Record sheet, you can select a name and see a list of the assignments for which there's a grade. There's really no need to have a separate sheet for each person, just use this 'dashboard' screen to produce a summary of grades. By the way, this solution does require the most current version of Excel in order for the functions FILTER and UNIQUE to work.