I've got the following tables:
First
1
Second
2
Third
3
Fourth
4
I want to build a formula that bring both together vertically, so that I end up with a big table like this:
First
1
Second
2
Third
3
Fourth
4
I've tried using standard union formulas like {table1, table2} but it adds table2 horizontally, not vertically.
Any thought on how I would go about doing this?
When using curly braces, a comma ({table1, table2}) separates data into columns on the same row, while a semi-colon ({table1; table2}) will put table2's data into the row after table1's data.
I presume that your local parameters will ask you tu write it as following
{table1; table2}
Related
I am currently working with Google Forms and want to rearrange the way the responses are being displayed on the "Response Sheet". The only way I can think of doing this is by importing or moving the data to another sheet that would select and transpose certain columns if Column A contains key value.
This is what I'm seeing as part of the input and would like to see as the output if Column A Contains certain text:
Input & Output
Thank you in advance for your help!
O.K.
I rewrite headings a2:e2,
I take whole first five columns without headings e3:e6
I display content of columns A,B,F,G,H for all the rows that have 'A1' in column 1
I take tables built in point 1 and 2 together and sort them by first column
My solution is here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n7Ppd8v75mb3qrnJz_Jh_b4HNaj4i56X9wRGnz0l6i8/copy
={A2:E2;
sort({A3:E6;
query(A3:H6,"select A,B,F,G,H where A ='A1'",0)})
}
I have two ranges: one is a list of headers (Column A), and one is a list of categories (On a separate sheet in column B). Both are generated from other sources, and can be dynamic in length (i.e they cannot be guaranteed to be the same size).
I need to make a summary sheet from these. I want to take the first value of headers, then add all the categories, then the second value of headers, then all the categories, etc. Similar to:
HEADER 1
Role 1
Role 2
Role ...
HEADER 2
Role 1
Role 2
Role ...
And so on.
I've tried various options, and I currently have this:
=ARRAYFORMULA( SPLIT(JOIN("|", A1:A6), "|") & "+" & JOIN("~", UNIQUE(Roles!B3:B)) )
This gets me one row with a column for each header with the entire roles range appended. For instance, column one has:
ON-SITE+Project Management & Creative Design~Production Staff~Video~Audio~
and so on across the sheet.
Ideally, I'd add two more SPLIT functions to separate this to a bunch of columns, then simply transpose into a single column and be done. However, it seems you only get one instance of SPLIT in an ARRAYFORMULA. When I add another SPLIT function:
=ARRAYFORMULA( SPLIT(SPLIT(JOIN("|", $A$1:$A$6), "|") & "+" & JOIN("~", UNIQUE(Roles!$B$4:$B)), "+") )
It simply splits the first column into two, then ignores the rest. If I add a second split to that, I only get the Header. It appears you only get one use of SPLIT inside ARRAYFORMULA, then it breaks down. I've read several things about how JOIN and SPLIT don't seem to play nicely inside ARRAYFORMULA.
Is there something I can add or order into this to make it work as desired? I'm also open to other methods, such as using QUERY or REGEX (those I know very little about REGEX). I attempted to create a literal array using TEXTJOIN and {}, but passing this via INDIRECT never seemed to work. I also need to solve this inside gSheets - no scripting unfortunately.
Editable Sheet Here
try:
=ARRAYFORMULA(TRANSPOSE(SPLIT(QUERY("♦"&TRANSPOSE(UNIQUE(Roles!C1:H1))&"♦"&
TEXTJOIN("♦", 1, UNIQUE(Roles!B2:B)),,99^99), "♦")))
This a simple customer sheet:
A B C D
ID First Middle Last
1 John Doe
2 Jane Maia Doe
And in F1 I put this vlookup code:
=VLOOKUP($G$1;$A$1:$D$3;2;FALSE)&" "&VLOOKUP($G$1;$A$1:$D$3;3;FALSE)&" "&VLOOKUP($G$1;$A$1:$D$3;4;FALSE)
When I lookup ID 2, it's perfect nicely spaced between the vlookups
But when I lookup ID 1 you see 2 spaces between the first and last name, because there is no middle name here.
How can I manage that I always see 1 space between the vlookups?
One way you could achieve the result you're looking for is to simply replace multiple spaces with a single space.
=REGEXREPLACE(JOIN(" ",ARRAYFORMULA(VLOOKUP(G1,A:D,{2,3,4},FALSE))),"\s{2,}"," ")
This formula looks up G1 in your table (A:D). VLOOKUP can be used in an ARRAYFORMULA to efficiently retrieve all of the columns you want in one shot. Your JOIN joins all of the retrieved columns, inserting a space between each value. Finally, your REGEXREPLACE function looks for multiple consecutive spaces and replaces them with a single space.
Alternatively, you could filter the resulting array (i.e. the result of what your VLOOKUP returns). The following formula looks up the array of first, middle, and last name, and then filters out any empty cells before joining the remaining elements with a space.
=JOIN(" ",FILTER(VLOOKUP(I1,A:D,{2,3,4},FALSE),INDIRECT("B"&MATCH(I1,A:A,0)&":D"&MATCH(I1,A:A,0))<>""))
all you need is TRIM fx and:
=ARRAYFORMULA(TRIM(TRANSPOSE(QUERY(TRANSPOSE(IFERROR(
VLOOKUP(G1:G2, A1:D3, {2,3,4}, 0))),,999^99))))
I have a large list of people where each person has a line like this.
Bill Gates, IT Manager, Microsoft, <https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates>
I want to extract the company name in a specific cell. In this example, it would be Microsoft, which is between the second and third delimiters (in this case, the delimiter is ", "). How can I do this?
Right now I'm using the split method (=SPLIT(A2, ", ",false)). But it gives me four different cells with information. I would like a command only to output the company in one cell. Can anyone help? I have tried different things, but I can't seem to find anything that works.
Maybe some regex can do it, but I'm not into regex.
Short answer
Use INDEX and SPLIT to get the value between two separators. Example
=INDEX(SPLIT(A1,", ",FALSE),2)
Explation
SPLIT returns an 1 x n array.
The first argument of INDEX could be a range or an array.
The second and third arguments of INDEX are optional. If the first parameter is an array that has only one row or one column, it will assume that the second argument corresponds to the larger side of the array, so there is no need to use the third argument.
A bit nasty, but this formula works, assuming data in cell D3.
=MID(D3,FIND(",",D3,FIND(",",D3)+1)+2,FIND(",",D3,FIND(",",D3,FIND(",",D3)+1)+1)-FIND(",",D3,FIND(",",D3)+1)-2)
Broken down, this is what it does:
Take the Mid point of D3 =MID(D3
starting two characters after the 2nd comma FIND(",",D3,FIND(",",D3)+1)+2
and the number of characters between the 2nd and 3rd comma, excluding spaces FIND(",",D3,FIND(",",D3,FIND(",",D3)+1)+1)-FIND(",",D3,FIND(",",D3)+1)-2)
I'll add my favourite ArratFormula, which you could use to expand list automatically without draggind formula down. Assumptions:
you have list with data in range "A1:A20"
all data have same sintax "...,Company Name, <..."
In this case you could use Arrayformula, pasted in cell B1:
=ArrayFormula(REGEXEXTRACT(A1:A20,", ([^,]+), <"))
If your data doest's always look like "...,Company Name, <..." or you wish to get different ounput, use this formula in cell B1:
=QUERY(QUERY(TRANSPOSE(SPLIT(JOIN(", ",A1:A20),", ",0)),"offset 2"),"skipping 4")
in this formula:
change 2 in offset 2 to 0, 1, 2, 3 to get name, position, company, link
in skipping 4 4 is a number of items.
Number of items can be counted by formula:
=len(A1)-len(SUBSTITUTE(A1,",",""))+1
and final formula is:
=QUERY(QUERY(TRANSPOSE(SPLIT(JOIN(", ",A1:A20),", ",0)),"offset 2"),
"skipping "&len(A1)-len(SUBSTITUTE(A1,",",""))+1)
I am trying to use the INDEX() formula inside an ARRAYFORMULA(). As a simple (non-sense) example, with 4 elements in column A, I expected that the following array formula entered in B1 would display all four elements from A in column B:
=ARRAYFORMULA(INDEX($A$1:$A$4,ROW($A$1:$A$4)))
However, this only fills field B1 with a the value found in A1.
When I enter
=ARRAYFORMULA(ROW($A$1:$A$4))
in B1, then I do see all numbers 1 to 4 appear in column B. Why does my first array formula not expand similar like the second one does?
The INDEX function is one that does not support "iteration" over an array if an array is used as one of its arguments. There is no documentation of this that I know of; it simply is what it is. So the second argument will always default to the first element of the array, which is ROW(A1).
One clumsy workaround to achieve what you require relies on a second adjacent column existing next to the source data* (although it is unimportant what values are actually in that second column):
=ArrayFormula(HLOOKUP(IF(ROW($A$1:$A$4);$A$1);$A$1:$B$4;ROW($A$1:$A$4);0))
or indeed something like:
=ArrayFormula(HLOOKUP(IF({3;2;4;1};$A$1);$A$1:$B$4;{3;2;4;1};0))
edit 2015-06-09
* This is no longer a requirement in the newest version of Sheets; the second argument in the HLOOKUP can just be $A$1:$A$4.
Here is a tip for using vlookup with an array, so that even if the columns are moved later on the formula will still work correctly....
In general, configure the vlookup so that it's reading only 2 columns and returning the second. This can be done by inputting only the 2 columns required, rather than a range and column index.
Example:
Replace the following formula which would fail if columns are moved
=arrayformula( vlookup(C:C, booking!$A:$E ,5 ,false) )
with this formula which will continue to work even if columns are moved
=arrayformula( vlookup(C:C, {booking!$A:$A,booking!$E:$E} ,2 ,false) )
Note, you can also simulate the index function using vlookup.
Example:
Column R:R contains the row index numbers for looking up data in column booking!$A:$A
=arrayformula(vlookup(R:R ,arrayformula({row(booking!$A:$A), booking!$A:$A}),2 , false))
It's a nested array, so it can be helpful to test in stages, eg just the inner part for one example, eg return entry in row 10:
=vlookup(10 ,arrayformula({row(booking!$A:$A), booking!$A:$A}),2 , false)