Splitting a row with multiple lines of text to different rows

[Eizenman]

Hello all,

I have an excel sheet in which some rows have multiple lines of text and some have only one line.

I want to convert all those rows which have multiple lines to separate rows.

See example below.

Original table:

Order	Line	Date	Supplier
1 2	1 2	1/12/2020 1/25/2020	Supplier1 Supplier2
3	3	11/17/2019	Supplier3

Converted table:

Order	Line	Date	Supplier
1	1	1/12/2020	Supplier1
2	2	1/25/2020	Supplier2
3	3	11/17/2019	Supplier3

Any ideas on how to achieve that? preferable without a macro.

Thanks,

Liron.

[#2]

@Eizenman I'm guessing the data is pasted into Excel from elsewhere, perhaps it is easier to try a different way to get that data into Excel? What is the source of this table?

[#3]

I don't have a way to change how I get the data

[#4]

The question wasnt clear enough.

[#5]

@Eizenman I'm not sure why you don't want to use VBA, but I couldn't come up with an easy alternative. The code below assumes all cells on a row contain the same number of "lines":

Option Explicit

Sub SplitTableROws()
    Dim Data As Variant
    Dim NewData As Variant
    Dim SplitData As Variant
    Dim DataRow As Long
    Dim NewDataRow As Long
    Dim Col As Long
    Dim Line As Long

    Data = ActiveSheet.Range("A1").CurrentRegion.Value
    NewData = Application.Transpose(Data)
    For DataRow = LBound(Data, 1) To UBound(Data, 1)
        NewDataRow = NewDataRow + 1
        If InStr(Data(DataRow, 1), Chr(10)) > 0 Then
            ReDim Preserve NewData(1 To UBound(Data, 2), 1 To NewDataRow + UBound(Split(Data(DataRow, 1), Chr(10))))
            For Col = LBound(Data, 2) To UBound(Data, 2)
                SplitData = Split(Data(DataRow, Col), Chr(10))
                For Line = LBound(SplitData) To UBound(SplitData)
                    NewData(Col, NewDataRow + Line) = SplitData(Line)
                Next
            Next
            NewDataRow = NewDataRow + Line - 1
        Else
            ReDim Preserve NewData(1 To UBound(Data, 2), 1 To NewDataRow)
            For Col = LBound(Data, 2) To UBound(Data, 2)
                NewData(Col, NewDataRow) = Data(DataRow, Col)
            Next
        End If
    Next DataRow
    Range("F1").Resize(NewDataRow, UBound(Data, 2)).Value = Application.Transpose(NewData)
End Sub

[#6]

@Jan Karel Pieterse  I ran it but it just creates duplicated the column headers to the right of the existing columns without splitting the rows.

Am I supposed to take additional steps?

[#7]

No, but you must make sure there are no empty rows between row 1 and the remainder of the data. I took the sample data you posted and placed that little table in A1:D4

[#8]

@Eizenman 

One more variant with Power Query. Not everything from user interface, the script is

let
    Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table1"]}[Content],
    UnpivotColumns = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(
        Source,
        {},
        "Attribute", "Value"
    ),
    DateToText = Table.ReplaceValue(
        UnpivotColumns,
        each [Value],
        each
            if Type.Is(Value.Type([Value]),DateTime.Type)
            then Date.ToText(DateTime.Date([Value]),"yyyy-MM-dd")
            else [Value],
        Replacer.ReplaceValue,{"Value"}
    ),
    AllToText = Table.TransformColumnTypes(
        DateToText,
        {{"Value", type text}}
    ),
    TransformColumn = Table.TransformColumns(
        AllToText,
        {
            {"Value", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter("#(lf)")}
        }
    ),
    ExpandToRows = Table.ExpandListColumn(
        TransformColumn,
        "Value"
    ),
    GroupRows = Table.Group(
        ExpandToRows,
        {"Attribute"},
        {{"Group", each [Value]}}
    ),
    Result = Table.FromRows(
        List.Zip(GroupRows[Group]),
        GroupRows[Attribute]
    ),
    ProperType = Table.TransformColumnTypes(
        Result,
        {
            {"Line", Int64.Type},
            {"Date", type date},
            {"Supplier", type text}
        }
    )
in
    ProperType