Using VBA instead of power query

[jharding]

i had created an excel 2016 sheet that took 4 columns of data (week, meal time, meal name, food item) and transposed and grouped that data using power query to create a list of food items, by week (columns) and grouped by meal time/name as rows.


unfortunately, this was developed for a mac, where Excel for mac wont recognize power query or pivot tools and scripts


I'm trying to think if I could write VBA code to perform the same function:
1) Find unique week numbers (column a) and list each as column in result tab
2.) list meal time/meal names (column b and c, concatenated) as rows
3.) group food items (column d) into each week column and meal row.


Columns A-D are in a defined table (Table1), so I can use listobject class as my reference


Where would I start with this?


Thank you for your help

 

[ttray33y]

Try.

Sub test()
    
    Dim w1 As Worksheet
    Dim w2 As Worksheet
    Dim Target As Variant, wDest As Variant
    Dim fROW As Long, i As Long, cnt As Long


    
    Set w1 = ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1") [COLOR=#00ff00]'modify as per worksheet name[/COLOR]
    Set w2 = ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Result")[COLOR=#00ff00] 'modify as per worksheet name, this is your destination or result worksheet[/COLOR]
    
    w1.Select
    w2.UsedRange.ClearContents
    
    Target = w1.UsedRange
    
        w1.UsedRange.Copy Destination:=w2.Cells(1, 1)
    
    wDest = w2.UsedRange
    
    fROW = 2
    cnt = 2: i = fROW
        Do  [COLOR=#00ff00]'start loop[/COLOR]
            fROW = fROW + 1
                If wDest(fROW, 1) = wDest(i, 1) Then
                    cnt = cnt + 1
                        If cnt > UBound(wDest, 2) Then ReDim Preserve wDest(1 To UBound(wDest, 1), 1 To cnt)
                            wDest(i, cnt) = wDest(fROW, 2)
        Else
            cnt = 2
            i = i + 1
        End If
                If i <> fROW Then
                    wDest(i, 1) = wDest(fROW, 1): wDest(fROW, 1) = ""
                        wDest(i, 2) = wDest(fROW, 2): wDest(fROW, 2) = ""
        End If
        
        Loop Until fROW = UBound(wDest, 1)
        w2.UsedRange.Resize(, UBound(wDest, 2)).Value = wDest


End Sub

 

[Fluff]

Cross posted https://www.excelforum.com/excel-pr...1232547-using-vba-instead-of-power-query.html

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[jharding]

Also posted in:
https://www.excelforum.com/excel-pr...g-vba-instead-of-power-query.html#post4908065
https://chandoo.org/forum/threads/vba-instead-of-power-query.38723/

 

[ttray33y]

time and effort wasted

 

[jharding]

I used a combination of the code sample here and another one to formulate my final solution. Thank you for your help with this challenge