I have data that looks like this:
A B
1 Account Notes
--------- ------
2 1000 abc
3 def
4 ghi
5 1001 jkl
6 mno
7 1000 pq
8 rs
9 ... ...
Is there any way to add in a third column that concatenates the notes rows
into one row? I know doing this: =B2 & "
" &B3& "
" &B4 in cell C2
will give me what I want, but I have about 12,000 rows to sort through and I
don't want to do this all manually. Is there a way to create intermediate
columns with dummy variables to say, if A is null, but A+1 is not null,
concatenate column B for all the rows for a particular account?
Thanks.
Anne Troy - 28 Oct 2006 02:25 GMT
You may want to first fill in the "blanks" in the A column. This article
explains how:
http://www.officearticles.com/excel/fill_in_the_blanks_in_microsoft_excel.htm

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Debra Dalgleish - 28 Oct 2006 03:57 GMT
In cell C2, enter the formula:
=IF(A2="",C1& " " &B2,A2 & " " & B2)
and copy down to the last row of data.
If you only want to see the final row of concatenated data, in cell D2,
enter the formula:
=IF(A3<>"",C2,"")
and copy down to the last row of data. You'd need to add an entry below
the last item in column A, to mark the end of the data.
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