Data Layout / Pivot Table Question

[mpkrva]

Hello! I've been given a table containing information - no numbers - so this isn't a calculation questions. It is more of a data display question. The spreadsheet originated from an online form where people were asked to pick their location, their name, and about 25 optional questions. Each row in the spreadsheet contains the responses from one respondent. (i.e. Location | First | Last | Ques 1 | Ques 2 | Ques 3 | etc.) The powers-that-be here would like to see the data summarized where everyone from, say Location A, would be grouped under a Location A header by name and the then their corresponding answers below that. Something like this:

-Location A
-Smith |Bob
Ans 1
Ans 2
...
Ans 25
-Doe | Jane
Ans 1
Ans 2
...
Ans 25
+Location B
...

I'm not a noobie, but inexperienced with Pivot Tables and much more comfortable with VBA. However, I am a bit of a time crunch and this only happens once a year so I'm reluctant to code it out in VBA.

I feel like I've seen this sort of data manipulation done natively in Excel and was just wondering if anyone might have some tips for how to go about getting it done. Basically I need to pull some horizontal data into vertical data under by header and subheader...

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[alansidman]

Based upon what you have provided, I am thinking that you probably need to load the data into Power Query/Get & Transform and unpivot the horizontal data. A fairly easy thing to do.