Excel formula to get non-blanks from a range - row by row

Js Smith

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  1. 2010
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Hi all!

I'm not able to find a suitable formula in google searches.

This is my fake data which could start in column B, X or anywhere else:

stuff1stuff2stuff3stuff4stuff5stuff6stuff7stuff8
Item1bItem2cItem2dItem2fItem2gItem3i
Item2b
Item1bItem2cItem2dItem2fItem2gItem3i
item3e
Item1bItem2cItem2dItem2fItem2gItem3i
Item1bItem2cItem2dItem2g


What I need is an excel formula to get non-blanks from a range - row by row so it looks something like this:

Item1bItem2cItem2dItem2fItem2gItem3i
Item2b
Item1bItem2cItem2dItem2fItem2gItem3i
item3e
Item1bItem2cItem2dItem2fItem2gItem3i
Item1bItem2cItem2dItem2g

Just for fun, the data could have a blank row so not sure how to work that out for error handling.

I've played around with this sort of formula
Excel Formula:
=IFERROR(INDEX($A$2:$A$10,SMALL(IF(ISTEXT($A$2:$A$10),ROW($A$1:$A$9),""),ROW(A1))),"")
but can't get it to do what I need.

There's loads of articles out there dealing with columns and with fairly clean data but not messy rows.

Thanks, in advance, for your guidance!
 

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Also tried something like this but couldn't get it to work with a range, rather than the entire row

Excel Formula:
=IFERROR(INDEX(2:2,AGGREGATE(15,6,(1/(2:2<>""))*COLUMN(2:2),COLUMN(A1))),"")
 
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