Concatenate Break Formula

[Craig Naylon]

Hi,

The below table represents what I am currently doing manually but would am trying to come up with a formula to do for me. Or, some combination of formulas to get to the result I need.

I need to write the result in the HTML column Currently I'm using the concatenation formula in the Formula column. It is simply concatenating the html tags and the data in the Description column for every cell where the Prod Ref # is the same. I'm copying / pasting the formula into the cell where the next Prod Ref # changes and removing the cell references or adding cell references as necessary to the formula. It's VERY time consuming and inefficient.

I have a .xls with 10,000's of lines. I can't figure out how to automatically break and start a new concatenation formula as the Prod Ref # changes.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks.

[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]Prod Ref #[/TD]
[TD]Description[/TD]
[TD]Formula[/TD]
[TD]HTML[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]201000[/TD]
[TD]DESC1[/TD]
[TD]'=CONCATENATE("
",B2,"

",B3,"

",B4,"

",B5,"

",B6,"

",B7,"
")[/TD]
[TD]DESC1

DESC2

DESC3

DESC4

DESC5

DESC6
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]201000[/TD]
[TD]DESC2[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]201000[/TD]
[TD]DESC3[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]201000[/TD]
[TD]DESC4[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]201000[/TD]
[TD]DESC5[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]201000[/TD]
[TD]DESC6[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]201002[/TD]
[TD][TABLE="width: 97"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]DESC1[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[TD]'=CONCATENATE("
",B8,"

",B9,"

",B10,"
")[/TD]
[TD]DESC1

DESC2

DESC3
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]201002[/TD]
[TD][TABLE="width: 97"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]DESC2[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]201002[/TD]
[TD][TABLE="width: 97"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]DESC3[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]201004[/TD]
[TD][TABLE="width: 97"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]DESC1[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[TD]'=CONCATENATE("
",B11,"

",B12,"

",B13,"

",B14,"

",B15,"
")[/TD]
[TD]DESC1

DESC2

DESC3

DESC4

DESC5
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]201004[/TD]
[TD][TABLE="width: 97"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]DESC2[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]201004[/TD]
[TD][TABLE="width: 97"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]DESC3[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]201004[/TD]
[TD][TABLE="width: 97"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]DESC4[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]201004[/TD]
[TD][TABLE="width: 97"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]DESC5[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

 

[Trevor_S]

Use two formulae. Column C to build up the concatenation, and column D to only show it on the first row of a product.
Put these formulae in C2 and D2, then copy down:
=B2&IF(A2=A3,C3,"")
=IF(A1=A2,"",C2)