Transposing data vertically to horizontally for duplicate vs non duplicate data

lizsunnysideup

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Hello there. I was given a task that has 40k rows of member data and drugs. Column D has member ID numbers but the report includes duplicate member who have filled different medications so the report looks like this:

Column D Column O
0001 VIAGRA 50MG
0001 LISINOPRIL 10MG
0001 VIAGRA 50MG
0001 SEVERVENT INHALER
0002 FINASTERIDE 5MG
0003 ELIQUIS 10MG
0003 LISINIOPRIL 20MG

How do I remove the duplicates from Column D and O AND how do I go from listing each individual drug for people that filled more than 1 drug horizontally in Column P, Q, R, etc with each drug moving to the next column to the right? So for instance:

Column D Column O Column P Column Q
0001 VIAGRA 50MG LISINORPIL 10MG SEREVENT INHALER
0002 FINASTERIDE 5MG
0003 ELIQUIS 10MG LISINOPRIL 20MG
 

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How can you turn a range sideways?
Copy the range. Select a blank cell. Right-click, Paste Special, then choose Transpose.
I would use Power Query to get the expected results

Book6
ABCDEFGH
21VIAGRA 50MG1VIAGRA 50MGLISINOPRIL 10MGVIAGRA 50MGSEVERVENT INHALER
31LISINOPRIL 10MG2FINASTERIDE 5MG
41VIAGRA 50MG3ELIQUIS 10MGLISINIOPRIL 20MG
51SEVERVENT INHALER
62FINASTERIDE 5MG
73ELIQUIS 10MG
83LISINIOPRIL 20MG
Sheet1


Power Query:
let
    Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table1"]}[Content],
    #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(Source, {"Column1"}, {{"Count", each _, type table [Column1=number, Column2=text]}}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Grouped Rows", "Custom", each Table.AddIndexColumn([Count],"Index",1,1)),
    #"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Added Custom",{"Custom"}),
    #"Expanded Custom" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Removed Other Columns", "Custom", {"Column1", "Column2", "Index"}, {"Column1", "Column2", "Index"}),
    #"Pivoted Column" = Table.Pivot(Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Expanded Custom", {{"Index", type text}}, "en-US"), List.Distinct(Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Expanded Custom", {{"Index", type text}}, "en-US")[Index]), "Index", "Column2")
in
    #"Pivoted Column"
 
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