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Concatenating column B values if left adjacent cell is empty
- Jul 16, 2019
I revised the macro to allow up to 200 more rows of results in case of overflow, as well as up to 165 characters in next pass through the concatenation loop. When an overflow situation is detected, the server name will be repeated as often as needed to get all software names listed on additional rows.
Sub Sequelize() Dim rg As Range Dim delimiter As String, s As String Dim i As Long, k As Long, n As Long, nData As Long Dim vData As Variant, vResults As Variant delimiter = ", " Set rg = Range("A2").CurrentRegion Set rg = rg.Offset(1, 0).Resize(rg.Rows.Count - 1, rg.Columns.Count) n = rg.Rows.Count nData = Application.CountA(rg.Columns(1)) nData = nData + 200 'Allow for servers whose software list exceeds 32,767 characters vData = rg.Value ReDim vResults(1 To nData, 1 To 2) For i = 1 To n If vData(i, 1) <> "" Then k = k + 1 vResults(k, 1) = vData(i, 1) If s <> "" Then If i > 1 Then vResults(k - 1, 2) = Left$(s, 32767) End If s = IIf(vData(i, 2) = "", "", vData(i, 2)) Else If vData(i, 2) <> "" Then If s = "" Then s = vData(i, 2) Else s = s & delimiter & vData(i, 2) End If End If End If 'Overflow occurs if you put more than 32,767 characters in a cell. This block allows up to 165 characters (plus delimiter) in next pass through loop. If Len(s) > 32600 Then If (i < n) And (vData(i + 1, 1) = "") Then vResults(k, 2) = s vResults(k + 1, 1) = vResults(k, 1) s = "" k = k + 1 End If End If Next If s <> "" Then vResults(k, 2) = Left$(s, 32767) rg.ClearContents rg.Resize(nData, 2).Value = vResults End Sub
I apoligize for the delay in response here Brad_Yundt. I was having trouble with my laptop because excel was crashing often. I will attach a very small sample of the data I am working with. I am basically looking at all the software/applications installed on all the servers in my domain. I want all the applications belonging to each server to be in one cell block and be separated by a comma.
ServerA IE,Chrome,Windows Update, Intel driver, Edge, etc...
ServerB Chrome, Nvidia GPU Driver, Edge, etc....
Rather than what it currently is
ServerA IE
Chrome
Windows Update
Intel driver
Edge
etc...
Server B Chrome
Nvidia GPU Driver
Edge
etc....
Here is the Power Query version. Applications are sorted alphabetically in the list.
- SergeiBaklanJul 15, 2019MVP
Macro which Brad suggested works fine, but if you never used VBA it also takes time to learn how it works. VBA is much more universal, but, from my point of view, Power Query is more suitable for data transform tasks.
- JayNixonJul 15, 2019Copper ContributorI have never used Power Query. This is something I will have to research more as I haven't the slightest clue how to utilize it. I see it works beautifully. I will start my reading now.