Concatenate if

[rjbinney]

I have a table with a long list of items, followed by multiple columns of potential "attributes" for that list. The attributes are ticked either on or off.

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
1		Organic	Juicy	Delicious	Deadly	Seeds	Carbon-Based	Carbon Steel
2	Apples	x	x	x		x	x
3	Oranges	x	x	x			x
4	Muskrats	x		x	x		x
5	Muskets				x			x

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I'd like to be able to make a list that concatenates JUST the ticked attributes

Apples		Organic, Juicy, Delicious, Seeds, Carbon-Based
Oranges		Organic, Juicy, Delicious, Carbon-Based
Muskrats		Organic, Delicious, Deadly, Carbon-Based
Muskets		Deadly, Carbon Steel

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So I built a second table, essentially:
=IF (ISBLANK (B2),"",", B$1)

Which gives me

	J	K	L	M	N	O	P
1	Organic	Juicy	Delicious		Seeds	Carbon-Based
2	Organic	Juicy	Delicious			Carbon-Based
3	Organic		Delicious	Deadly		Carbon-Based
4				Deadly			Carbon Steel

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I know I can copy that second table into word and manipulate it into the desired list, but is there a clever way (or array) to build that same list in a cell?

(The list is 28 attributes, so that's a lot of nested IFs!)

 

[Fluff]

If you have Office 365, have a look at TextJoin, otherwise how about

Function rjbinney(Rng As Range) As String
   Dim Cl As Range
   For Each Cl In Rng
      If Cl = "x" Then
         If rjbinney = "" Then rjbinney = Cells(1, Cl.Column) Else rjbinney = rjbinney & ", " & Cells(1, Cl.Column)
      End If
   Next Cl
End Function

Used =rjbinney(B2:H2)
It assumes that you headers are in row 1, but that can be changed if needed.

 

[rjbinney]

Will look into TextJoin.

I'm on a flight, and Gogo and OneDrive just a$^-f#*^ed each other, so I need to do the last 60 minutes' worth of work over again.

Thanks!

 

[AlKey]

Try this
Enter array formula in I2 and copy down

[B]=TEXTJOIN(", ",1,IF(B2:H2="x",B$1:H$1,""))[/B]

**Must be entered with Ctrl+Shift+Enter key combination.
<b>Unknown</b><table cellpadding="2.5px" rules="all" style=";background-color: #FFFFFF;border: 1px solid;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #BBB"><colgroup><col width="25px" style="background-color: #DAE7F5 " /><col /><col /><col /><col /><col /><col /><col /><col /><col /></colgroup><thead><tr style=" background-color: #DAE7F5 ;text-align: center;color: #161120"><th></th><th>A</th><th>B</th><th>C</th><th>D</th><th>E</th><th>F</th><th>G</th><th>H</th><th>I</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">1</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style=";">Organic</td><td style=";">Juicy</td><td style=";">Delicious</td><td style=";">Deadly</td><td style=";">Seeds</td><td style=";">Carbon-Based</td><td style=";">Carbon Steel</td><td style="font-weight: bold;;">Concatenated</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">2</td><td style=";">Apples</td><td style=";">x</td><td style=";">x</td><td style=";">x</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style=";">x</td><td style=";">x</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="color: #FF0000;;">Organic, Juicy, Delicious, Seeds, Carbon-Based</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">3</td><td style=";">Oranges</td><td style=";">x</td><td style=";">x</td><td style=";">x</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style=";">x</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="color: #FF0000;;">Organic, Juicy, Delicious, Carbon-Based</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">4</td><td style=";">Muskrats</td><td style=";">x</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style=";">x</td><td style=";">x</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style=";">x</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="color: #FF0000;;">Organic, Delicious, Deadly, Carbon-Based</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">5</td><td style=";">Muskets</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style=";">x</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style=";">x</td><td style="color: #FF0000;;">Deadly, Carbon Steel</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="width:3.6em;font-weight:bold;margin:0;padding:0.2em 0.6em 0.2em 0.5em;border: 1px solid #BBB;border-top:none;text-align: center;background-color: #DAE7F5 ;color: #161120">Sheet2</p><br /><br />

 

[AlKey]

Or you can use this non-array version

[B]=TEXTJOIN(", ",1,INDEX(REPT(B$1:H$1,B2:H2="x"),0))[/B]

 

[rjbinney]

I was originally going to give Fluff 10 out of 10 for introducing me to TextJoin, coz that worked like a charm - did exactly what I asked.

But.

But.

But that formula, AlKey, was the bee's knees. Did exactly what I needed.

Thirteen out of ten!

(A "Huzzah" might even be in order)

Thank you,