Copy cells and paste in a different sheet based on cell background color

[Brutusar]

Hi,

I have a sheet A where different data have different "location" on the sheet, rather unstructured. ( Well, I have many, but let me stick to one for now) I need to structure the data into 14 different columns in a second sheet, B.

The easiest way for me to do this will be to analyze sheet A and give cells specific background colour based on what data it holds. Then loop thru each row, check the background colour for each cell, copy each cell to a specific column based on the background colour, and paste it in the "next free row" for that column.

The issue here is that there will be 14 different background colours, and it may be up to 500 rows in sheet A.

Any good ideas on how to do this and keep the speed up?

 

[Marc L]

Hi,​

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do not expect speed with Excel for purposes it was not designed for ! (50+ times slower than any database software !)​

As copying cell by cell according to a background color is maybe the slowest way …​

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First try manually a filter by color to see if it could work in order to copy at once filtered data, should be faster under VBA …​