Transpose Function..Empty Cells and Characters

[chrisscotty]

Hello All,

I just recently switched to Excel 2007 and am not that familiar with the program.

I have a question that has 3 components.


I have alot of data in Column A that has many blank cells.

I performed several searches and have still not been able to remove them.

This particular method worked if I was selecting a small amount of data

http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2189/excel_2007_eliminate_blank_rows/

Yet when I use with the entire list I get the error "selection is too large".


What I basically want to do is take the data that I have gathered and transpose it so I can save as a csv file and import in to my contact manager.


The data looks like this:
NEXT ENTRY
" "




Mr. Rene Reynolds

Chapters: Philadelphia
Position/Title: Machinist
Company: ABC Limited

71 Maybrook Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19118, USA
Bus. Telephone: (215) 298-8108x265
Fax: (215) 298-3545
E-mail: rene.reynolds@abc.com
NEXT ENTRY
" "






Ms Carol Jones

Chapters: Ottawa
Position/Title: Benefits Administrator

28 Reeds Road
North Bay, ON K9J 0K4, CANADA
E-mail: c_jones@yahoo.com
NEXT ENTRY


Mr Billl Jones

Chapters: Binghampton
NEXT ENTRY

----------

So each name after "Next ENTRY" is a new entry and I want the data transposed

Now, all this is consistent as far as the order..name, chapter, postion etc.

The thing is not all names have all the information some just have the name and phone, name and chapter etc etc.

Mr. Rene Reynolds

Chapters: Philadelphia
Position/Title: Machinist
Company: ABC Limited

71 Maybrook Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19118, USA
Bus. Telephone: (215) 298-8108x265
Fax: (215) 298-3545
E-mail: rene.reynolds@abc.com

So..first I want to get rid of all the empty cells and move up and then transpose the data and have it correspond to each entry and if it missing a fied it just skips over.

Oh and one more thing =-)

There appears a little question mark that I can not delete. Some of them appear before the name and some of them appear under NEXT ENTRY and appear as " " when I paste data from excel in to a txt file.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Legacy 68668]

All b Should be a

a(n, .Item("Sate"))

And use a code tag when you post the code.

 

[chrisscotty]

All b Should be a

a(n, .Item("Sate"))

And use a code tag when you post the code.

Sorry thought you said ...


All "b(1, t)" should be "a(1, t)" which is what I did, I replaced them all ..there were 5.


Not sure what you mean by:

"All b Should be a"

..........as that is what did but I replaced b(1,t) with a(1, t)

a(n, .Item("Sate"))

.....?

And use a code tag when you post the code.
..............?

 

[Legacy 68668]

Code tag
[-code]
code here
[-/code]
w/o -
So that it will keep the indention and make it easier to read.

Sub test()
Dim fn As String, temp As String, n As Long, t As Long, flg As Boolean, a(), x
Set dic = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
dic.CompareMode = vbTextCompare
fn = "c:\test\aaa.txt"
temp = "NEXT ENTRY" & _
    CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").OpenTextFile(fn).ReadAll
temp = CleanTxt(temp)
ReDim a(1 To Rows.Count, 1 To 20)
n = 1
With CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
    .CompareMode = vbTextCompare
    For Each e In Split(temp, vbCrLf)
        If Trim(e) <> "" Then
            If n > 0 Then
                x = Split(e, ":")
                If UBound(x) > 0 Then
                    If Not .exists(x(0)) Then
                        t = t + 1: a(1, t) = x(0): .Add x(0), t
                        a(1, t) = x(0)
                    End If
                    a(n, .Item(x(0))) = x(1)
                Else
                    If flg Then
                        a(n, 1) = e: flg = False
                    Else
                        If Not e Like "*,*" Then
                            If Not .exists("Address") Then
                                t = t + 1 : a(1, t) = "Address"
                                .Add "Address", t
                                a(n, .Item("Address")) = e
                            End If
                        Else
                            x = Split(e, ",")
                            If Not .exists("State") Then
                                t = t + 1 : .add "State", t : a(1, t) = "State"
                            End If
                            If Not .exists("Zip") Then
                                t = t + 1 : .add "Zip", t : a(1, t) = "Zip"
                            End If
                            If Not .exists("Country") Then
                                t = t + 1 : .add "Country", t : a(1, t) = "Country"
                            End If
                            a(n, .item("Sate")) = x(0)
                            If UBound(x) > 0 Then a(n, .item("Zip")) = x(1) 
                            If UBound(x) > 1 Then a(n, .item("Country")) = x(2) 
                        End If
                    End If
                End If
            End If
        End If
        If UCase(e) Like "*NEXT ENTRY*" Then
            n = n + 1: flg = True
        End If
    Next
End With
ThisWorkbook.Sheets(1).Cells(1).Resize(n, t).Value = a
End Sub
 
Function CleanTxt(ByVal txt As String) As String
With CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
    .Pattern = "^\s*$"
    .Global = True
    .MultiLine = True
    CleanTxt = .Replace(txt, "")
End With
End Function

 

[chrisscotty]

error
subscript out of range


The bottom line is I only need the name and the street address in separate cells (well outside of the ones that have headers and we are done with) as I can separate city, state and zip as they are already separated by commas even though they are on the same line... so they can be in the same cell.

 

[Legacy 68668]

Which line was hilited when you debug ???

 

[chrisscotty]

No line was highlighted if that is what you mean. I still get the same error.

Subscript out of range



I tried to debug in the vb editor but I do not know what to do exactly .

 

[Legacy 68668]

How about

Sub test()
Dim fn As String, temp As String, n As Long, t As Long, flg As Boolean, a(), x, y
Set dic = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
dic.CompareMode = vbTextCompare
fn = "c:\test\aaa.txt"
temp = "NEXT ENTRY" & _
    CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").OpenTextFile(fn).ReadAll
temp = CleanTxt(temp)
ReDim a(1 To Rows.Count, 1 To 20)
n = 1
With CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
    .CompareMode = vbTextCompare
    For Each e In Split(temp, vbCrLf)
        If Trim(e) <> "" Then
            If n > 0 Then
                x = Split(e, ":")
                If UBound(x) > 0 Then
                    If Not .exists(x(0)) Then
                        t = t + 1: a(1, t) = x(0): .Add x(0), t
                        a(1, t) = x(0)
                    End If
                    a(n, .Item(x(0))) = x(1)
                Else
                    If flg Then
                        a(n, 1) = e: flg = False
                    Else
                        If Not e Like "*,*" Then
                            If Not .exists("Address") Then
                                t = t + 1 : a(1, t) = "Address"
                                .Add "Address", t
                                a(n, .Item("Address")) = e
                            End If
                        Else
                            y = Split(e, ",")
                            If Not .exists("State") Then
                                t = t + 1 : .add "State", t : a(1, t) = "State"
                            End If
                            If Not .exists("Zip") Then
                                t = t + 1 : .add "Zip", t : a(1, t) = "Zip"
                            End If
                            If Not .exists("Country") Then
                                t = t + 1 : .add "Country", t : a(1, t) = "Country"
                            End If
                            a(n, .item("Sate")) = y(0)
                            If UBound(y) > 0 Then a(n, .item("Zip")) = y(1) 
                            If UBound(y) > 1 Then a(n, .item("Country")) = y(2) 
                        End If
                    End If
                End If
            End If
        End If
        If UCase(e) Like "*NEXT ENTRY*" Then
            n = n + 1: flg = True
        End If
    Next
End With
ThisWorkbook.Sheets(1).Cells(1).Resize(n, t).Value = a
End Sub
 
Function CleanTxt(ByVal txt As String) As String
With CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
    .Pattern = "^\s*$"
    .Global = True
    .MultiLine = True
    CleanTxt = .Replace(txt, "")
End With
End Function

 

[chrisscotty]

subscript out of range

 

[Legacy 68668]

try change to

ReDim a(1 To Rows.Count, 1 To 100)

 

[chrisscotty]

Out of Memory..


and I closed down all other programs.

We could leave city,state,postal code alone on the one line and just separate name and street address which are all on separate lines ?