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Spreading data contained in column A across to other columns to form a table
I have a copy and paste multi-line data from a web page which has all gone into column A. This isn't a text to column use case but one where I want to place data from column A into relevant headed columns
I have a sample if that helps. The major headings are:
COMPANY SECTOR SALES PHONE CITY WEBSITE CONTACT SIC CODE
- Which solution is now appropriate to your desire?
Please do not forget that the VBA solution leaves one line free every 10 rows, so that all addresses of the column in the row can be kept apart.
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Nikolino
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- Always at your service. Wish you a nice day Nikolino
- Although there is a lot built in with Power Query, here is a small additional solution with VBA ... simple but effective.
Open with the worksheet and press the button. If you press it several times, you will see that it can continue to enter as you imagine.NikolinoDE Thanks...I think the translation from German to English did not make complete sense. Thanks for your help anyway! M
- Which solution is now appropriate to your desire?
Please do not forget that the VBA solution leaves one line free every 10 rows, so that all addresses of the column in the row can be kept apart.
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Nikolino
I know I don't know anything (Socrates)
Melise1 , I took a shot at this using Power Query. It's now perfect since the data in the column A is not consistent. There is no pattern that holds for all items past the Sector. Take a look at the solution and let me know if maybe there's a way to describe the input data pattern that can be used to automate the task.
Melise1 , the tricky part is not every item has the same 10 parts. For example, "Little Wickets" does not have the "Sales" part and this makes it difficult to automate.
Little Wickets (East Midlands) Ltd Amusement And Recreation Services, Sports 441159248476 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire http://littlewickets.com/ 1 79 CRM You mentioned that you copied and pasted from a website. Does the website have the data formatted in a way that includes all the parts? Perhaps the manual copy/paste messed things up. Can you check to see if you can get a more consistent data set?
Once without a VBA
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Nikolino
I know I don't know anything (Socrates)NikolinoDE Hi Nikolino....not quite what was looking for....more like this:
take the lines of info under each company name and moving them to the same line as the company name but in their own column. make sense? Thanks! Melise
- Hello,
Rather than using copy and paste method to copy data from web, you could have used the Power Query to fetch the data from the website. Then, you can clean and transform the data us in Power Query
You can watch the video in the link below
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NdUZx_yyEqY
