Formula to change the ref number in a coulmn once all of them have been used

[tonywatsonhelp]

Hi Everyone,
Hope you can help with this,

I am trying to make a list of products,
the formula I need is this

I have my products in batch numbers from 1 on
I need to make a list of this batch numbers but miss out the numbers that have zero products at the moment

So for example
In Sheets " Product"
Column B is the batch numbers (Not in order)
Column C is the number of products that need that batch number

so Sheets Data Column A cell A3= 1 (there will always be at lest one item in batch 1)
So Cell A4 need to Count how many number 1 there are above it, and look batch 1 in sheets Product column B and see how many number ones there are,
if its more than we have then its still batch 1,
but if its equal we need to go to the next batch number with items so if batch 2 column C = a number then its batch 2 but if its a zero we need to miss it, but also if c is zero and so on?

i'll try do a small chart

Sheet Products	A	B	C	D	E	F
		Batch Number	Number of rows needed
		7	3
		4	3
		1	3
		2	5
		5	0
		9	4
		8	0
		6	0
		3	0
Data sheet	What I need
	Batch number
	1	so because Column C shows batch 1 as needing 3 rows we get 3 rows of 1
	1
	1
	2	same
	2
	2
	2
	2
	4	but here 3 was zero so its missed
	4
	4
	7	so was 5 and 6
	7
	7
	9	and 8
	9
	9
	9
		Please help if you can

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[Special-K99]

This is more of a job for VBA than a formula.
I;m not a VBA expert, hopefully someone will come along and solve it.

 

[Peter_SSs]

(there will always be at lest one item in batch 1)

In that case, try this. You should be able to adapt to work on two sheets if it is what you want.

A13 houses a 1
A14 is copied down.

Excel Workbook
	A	B	C
1		Batch	Rows
2		7	3
3		4	3
4		1	3
5		2	5
6		5	0
7		9	4
8		8	0
9		6	0
10		3	0
11
12
13	1
14	1
15	1
16	2
17	2
18	2
19	2
20	2
21	4
22	4
23	4
24	7
25	7
26	7
27	9
28	9
29	9
30	9
31
Batch Numbers

 

[tonywatsonhelp]

Thanks Peter, this is great

Tony

 

[Peter_SSs]

I just realised that the formula in my previous post did not display correctly. I have edited it to do so now.
Not sure if you were able to work out what I had meant to post.

 

[tonywatsonhelp]

Hi Peter,
thank you for the correction, I had already spoted it and was able to change it, sometimes all I need is the push in the right direction, but thank you for all your help
Tony