Consolidating values from multiple sheets

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#1

Hey,

I've got several sheets with values such as the following:

Thu | Fri | Sat |
----:|----:|----:expressionless:
5 | 6 | | > 9 | 10 | 1 | | 2 | > 9 | 10 | 11 | | 12 |
7 | 8 | | > 3 | 4 | 11 | | 12 |

Here is another

Thu | Fri | Sat |
----:|----:|----:expressionless:
g | h | | a | | b | > i | j | g | h | | e | f | | > c | d | k | | l |

How would one go about creating a new sheet that consolidates all these together, so that I'd get a list of all the values for each of the columns, i.e. an array with the values {5,1,11,7,11,g,a,g,e,k} for "Thu", and so on, and ideally without the blank lines?

Is this possible without scripting? It has to run on Excel as well as Calc, and I don't think scripting is a sensible way to go for that.

Ideally, I can also suppress duplicates *and* sort the result. Any ideas?

#2

I've got several sheets with values such as the following:

Thu | Fri | Sat |
----:|----:|----:expressionless:

5 | 6 | | | | 9 | 10 | | 1 | | 2 | | | 9 | 10 | | 11 | | 12 | | 7 8 | | | | 3 | 4 | | 11 | | 12 |

Here is another

Thu | Fri | Sat |
----:|----:|----:expressionless:

g | h | | | a | | b | | | i | j | | g | h | | | e | f | | | | c |

d | | k | | l |

Sorry, but I have no idea what this picture represents. It is usually more helpful to explain how your sheets are organs.

How would one go about creating a new sheet that consolidates all these together, so that I'd get a list of all the values for each of the columns, i.e. an array with the values {5,1,11,7,11,g,a,g,e,k} for "Thu", and so on, ...

Er, exactly how do those become the values for Thursday?

o Enter "=" (no quotes) into the target cell in your new sheet.
o Click the tab of your source sheet to display it.
o Click the source cell.
o Press Enter (or click the Accept green tick icon in the Input Line).

You can now drag the cell's fill handle in the target sheet to expand the area referenced to a row, a column, or another range.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker

#3

Regarding the following, written by "Brian Barker" on 2021-08-18 at 02:33 Uhr +0100:

Sorry, but I have no idea what this picture represents. It is usually more helpful to explain how your sheets are organs.

Sorry, these were ASCII-formatted tables, but something munged them on the way. Here is what the HTML-rendering looks like:

https://i.imgur.com/rHHekvu.png

So I want to "query" these sets of tables and for e.g. "Thu", get the values of the non-empty cells in the "Thu" columns on the various sheets.

I can do an array copy, but that includes the empty cells.

Also, ideally, I get the output sorted somehow.

#4

Hello,

There are ways of doing this without scripting, but if your entries
contain text, then scripting may be required, because my method of
sorting/removing duplicates requires the RANK() function and this
function only works with numbers. If your cells do contain text and the
lengths are short (about 5-6 characters), it is possible to convert
these strings into a sort of number that RANK() can process, and then
you can do what you want: remove blanks, remove duplicates, and sort.

However, if you just want to remove the blank entries, you can
iteratively search with the MATCH() function and look for a non-blank
string (something like "[\d\D]{1,}" in LO and "*" in Excel). You can
make the determination of which you are using with the formula
=IF(ISERROR(INDIRECT("Config.A1")),1,0), provided you have a sheet
named "Config": the result will be 1 on Excel, 0 on LO. You can then
use that result to initialize the search string and store it in a named
cell for the iterative search. The formulas would look something like
this (NonBlank is the name of a cell containing the search string):

Cell A2: =2+MATCH(NonBlank,
OFFSET(INDIRECT(ADDRESS(2,xx,Sheet)),0,0,1000,1),0)
Cell A3: =A2+MATCH(NonBlank,
OFFSET(INDIRECT(ADDRESS(A2+1,xx,Sheet)),0,0,1000,1),0)
Cell A4: =A3+MATCH(NonBlank,
OFFSET(INDIRECT(ADDRESS(A3+1,xx,Sheet)),0,0,1000,1),0)
And so on.

In the formulas above, Cell A2 is different as it needs to contain the
first non blank entry. I used "2" in the ADDRESS() function because I
am assuming your first data line is the second one. The "xx" is the
column number of where you are reading from, "Sheet" is the worksheet
that contains the data. At one point, the cell value will generate an
error (MATCH() will fail), and that indicates you have reached the end
of the data list.

I hope this helps.
Rémy.