Grouping Cells

ExcelBeginner

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If you have column A and B. A has titles (ie Monday, Tuesday, . . .) and B has lines of data associated with the column label in A. How can you filter by the title in column A but display all the associated data in column B? I have about 15 rows in B associated with each name in column A but can not get the filter to display more than one column. I would be estatic if anyone could solve this. I have read the Excel help topics ten times (literally) to no avail.
 

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If I understand you right, filtering will not work on your list. You have to "monday" for example, in every line in column A. To get around this, insert a new column A. In A1 put your title. In A2 put the formula
=IF(ISBLANK(B2),A1,B2)
and copy it down to the end of your list.
No filter by your new column A.

Hope that helps.
 
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What I mean is that when I have colums as listed below, I need to be able to filter using the data in the first column (the letters) but show all the data assocaited with it when I filter. Right now, if I filter for A, I only see numbers 1-4. I need to find a way to see 1-12. I hope this makes it clearer and thank you for helping.


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

B 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28
29 30 31 32

C 33 34 35 36
This message was edited by ExcelBeginner on 2002-09-18 08:28
 
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For the filter to work as you wish, you will need to add A's to you blanks. The formula I suggest would accomplish this. This would result in your data looking like this:

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

B 13 14 15 16
b 17 18 19 20
b 21 22 23 24
b 25 26 27 28
b 29 30 31 32

C 33 34 35 36

Alternatively, your could rearange you data to something like:
A List all numbers on this line
B List all numbers on this line
C List all numbers on this line

To take advantage of tools like filter, subtotal, pivot tables, etc. your data must be in a consistent. Unhappily, this will involved rearranging your data a bit. Stay tuned though, someone may come up with an easier way.
 
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That works great. I just copied the A into everyspace below it (like you said) and then changed the font to white so it won't be noticed. Thanks for such a great (and simple) solution!
 
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