Including line breaks in concatination function

JosephineS · Apr 8th, 2002, 04:33 PM

Have four columns: Book Title, Author, Cost, and ISBM instead of presenting them in a column fromat would like to preset them as follows
Title Title Title
Author Author Author
Cost Cost Cost
ISBN ISBN ISBN

Title Title Title
Author Author Author
Cost Cost Cost
ISBN ISBN ISBN

Mark W. · Apr 8th, 2002, 04:38 PM

If A1:D3 contains...

{"Title1","Author1","Cost1","ISBN1"
;"Title2","Author2","Cost2","ISBN2"
;"Title3","Author3","Cost3","ISBN3"}

Select cells A5:C8 and enter the array formula...

{=TRANSPOSE(A1:D3)}

...to produce...

{"Title1","Title2","Title3"
;"Author1","Author2","Author3"
;"Cost1","Cost2","Cost3"
;"ISBN1","ISBN2","ISBN3"}

Note: Array formulas must be entered using the Control+Shift+Enter key combination. The outermost braces, { }, are not entered by you -- they're supplied by Excel in recognition of a properly entered array formula.

JosephineS · Apr 9th, 2002, 11:54 AM

Thanks Mark W.,
I'm new to excel and am learning to sort and format files I dumped from a dos based database. A couple of things I think I should be able to do:
- Pull out various abbreviations from title and author fields and place in a separate col (Did sort for various different codes, each with its own col and left the abbreviations in the original field).
-Make the data that's interesting to various clients look pretty / presentation.
I intend latter to learn about Access, transfer my excel work to Access and then use Access to go Web.
What are the features of excel I should learn first and can you recommend some tutorials ("smart people" resources)?

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Apr 8th, 2002, 04:33 PM	#1
JosephineS New Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 2	Have four columns: Book Title, Author, Cost, and ISBM instead of presenting them in a column fromat would like to preset them as follows Title Title Title Author Author Author Cost Cost Cost ISBN ISBN ISBN Title Title Title Author Author Author Cost Cost Cost ISBN ISBN ISBN

Apr 8th, 2002, 04:38 PM	#2
Mark W. MrExcel MVP Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Austin, Texas USA Posts: 11,654	If A1:D3 contains... {"Title1","Author1","Cost1","ISBN1" ;"Title2","Author2","Cost2","ISBN2" ;"Title3","Author3","Cost3","ISBN3"} Select cells A5:C8 and enter the array formula... {=TRANSPOSE(A1:D3)} ...to produce... {"Title1","Title2","Title3" ;"Author1","Author2","Author3" ;"Cost1","Cost2","Cost3" ;"ISBN1","ISBN2","ISBN3"} Note: Array formulas must be entered using the Control+Shift+Enter key combination. The outermost braces, { }, are not entered by you -- they're supplied by Excel in recognition of a properly entered array formula.

Apr 9th, 2002, 11:54 AM	#3
JosephineS New Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 2	Thanks Mark W., I'm new to excel and am learning to sort and format files I dumped from a dos based database. A couple of things I think I should be able to do: - Pull out various abbreviations from title and author fields and place in a separate col (Did sort for various different codes, each with its own col and left the abbreviations in the original field). -Make the data that's interesting to various clients look pretty / presentation. I intend latter to learn about Access, transfer my excel work to Access and then use Access to go Web. What are the features of excel I should learn first and can you recommend some tutorials ("smart people" resources)?