Weird Data Structure - VBA to join to tables ?

[opazzo]

Hi there,

I have two sheets with a common key "CardName".

One sheet has properties (first table below) that I want to copy to the second sheet after the last column of the second table. The first row would be headers and the second row repeated for each item with the same card name.

The number of properties columns in the first sheet can vary for each CardName, but the number of rows is always 2.

The number of lines in the second table varies from 1 to nnn for each cardname.

The intended result would look something like this :

I'm looking for VBA suggestions as I would prefer to avoid writing many lookups. I'm also looking into namedranges and tables but cannot identify a good way forward.

Appreciate the inputs.

 

[ranman256]

this is not normalized data and cannot be used with sql.
it would take lots of programming to fix.

 

[opazzo]

this is not normalized data and cannot be used with sql.
it would take lots of programming to fix.

I see. I can easily transform the first table to get the data vertical in three columns : CardName, Properties, Format.

However the intended result format would still remain the same (data populated in rows).

Would that be a better starting point ? What would you think of to join / lookup and transpose data to the second table ?