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Hi, first time post here so bear with me! I am trying to create a worksheet that displays a list of shift types with names of staff allocated that shift over the period of a week. I can do this ...
A formula solution. The key element is to perform a wildcard search for anything that contains a shift name, e.g. search for "*LMP*". There is a catch that the abbreviations for Early and Late are to be found within other shift codes so I converted them to "E0" and "L0" to avoid 'false positives'.
= IFERROR( INDEX( Name, MATCH( shift, INDEX(shiftTable, 0, day), 0 ) ), "" )
The names 'day' and 'shift' are relative references and the innermost INDEX returns the 3 rows for a given day of the table.
As for your other line of exploration, Power Query is available as an Office 2010 add-in free of charge from Microsoft. Your IT department could install it for you and I would recommend that they evaluate it themselves!