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mattcyborg
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Oct 08, 2020

Organizing groups data with inconsistent row count

Hello, I am not sure exactly how to put this into words so I was unable to search a solution.

 

I have a large list of items grouped into sections in a word document. I am trying to organize them into excel but am having trouble since the information is grouped in inconsistent sizes. I want to output them with the chapter next to the data so I can condense the information and easily sort/filter.

 

I am basically dumping the raw word doc data into one sheet as an input, and then on a second sheet trying to have it appear sorted.

 

example of how it appears when pasted into excel

 

Title of database
description
Chapter: 15
 
TA132456789
TA789456126
TA321987654
TA456321987
TA213465489
 
Title of database
description
Chapter: 15
 
TA94567321
TA95431456
TA65048594
 
Title of database
description
Chapter: 24
 
TA94567321
TA95431456
TA65048594
TA65048594
TA94567321
TA95431456
TA65048594

and so on...

 

 

I want to list the Chapter next to each item like the example below

 

TA13245678915
TA78945612615
TA32198765415
TA45632198715
TA21346548915
TA9456732115
TA9543145615
TA6504859415
TA9456732124
TA9543145624
TA6504859424
TA6504859424
TA9456732124
TA9543145624
TA6504859424

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