Organizing Data

vsimco

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This is in Excel 2007

I got a large raw database and want to organize it in a better way

right now the raw data look like
TYPEIDMATERIALTYPEIDQUANTITY
1834256
1835512
1836256
193471000
19359000
1940140
2034386
2036773
2037386
2135290
2137708
2138354
213932

<colgroup><col><col><col></colgroup><tbody>
</tbody>


I would like to organize it in such a fashion

Type ID34353637383940
18
2565122560000
197100090000000140
203860773386000

<tbody>
</tbody>


and so forth

I'm not sure how many different types of columns there are and the the pivot table doesn't like it.
 

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The pivot table seems to give you what you want, except that the 0's in your expected format show up as blanks. isn't the pivot what you want, TYPE ID in row label, MATERIAL TYPE ID in column label and QUANTITY in values as sum
 
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Hi vsimco,

With the sample that you've shown I'm able to produce it via Pivot Table as shown below by selecting A1:C14, did you dragTYPEID to [Row Labels], MATERIALTYPEID to [Column Labels] and QUANTITY to [Values]

EFGHIJKLM
1Sum of QUANTITYColumn Labels
2Row Labels34353637383940Grand Total
3182565122561024
41971000900014080140
5203867733861545
621290708354321384
7Grand Total716429802102910943543214084093

<tbody>
</tbody>
 
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For small subsets of the data the pivot table seems to work fine... Though when I select the whole data set MaterialtypeID in the column label excel gives an error of more than 256 results.

Was just wondering if there was a lazy way to organize the data? (Not necessarily as above with all those zeroes) .
 
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Hi vsimco,

Maybe try this and copy the formula across F3:L6?


ABCDEFGHIJKL
1TYPEIDMATERIALTYPEIDQUANTITY
2183425634353637383940
31835512182565122560000
41836256197100090000000140
5193471000203860773386000
6193590002102900708354320
71940140
82034386
92036773
102037386
112135290
122137708
132138354
14213932

<tbody>
</tbody>

Spreadsheet Formulas
CellFormula
F3=SUMPRODUCT(($A$2:$A$14=$E3)*($B$2:$B$14=F$2)*$C$2:$C$14)

<tbody>
</tbody>

<tbody>
</tbody>
 
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Thanks a lot this is basically what I was looking for in terms of making the new data set.. It is quite processor heavy my computer just spent 15 minutes going through the half the data set. But really just need to do it once (I hope).
 
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