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

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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]

Out of memory ?, can't belive it....

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 10)
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 InStr(e, ",") = 0 Then
                            If Not .exists("Address") Then
                                t = t + 1 : a(1, t) = "Address"
                                .Add "Address", t
                            End If
                            a(n, .Item("Address")) = e
                        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]

Do a step debug for yourself

1) click somehwere on the code
2) As you hit F8, the code will execute one line
3) find out the line that stop the code.

 

[chrisscotty]

First it stops on sub test ()

then
Set dic = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")

then

dic.CompareMode = vbTextCompare

then
fn = "c:\test\aaa.txt"

then
temp = "NEXT ENTRY" & _
CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").OpenTextFile(fn).ReadAll

then
temp = CleanTxt(temp)

so basically each line..and then

goes all the way down to
Function CleanTxt(ByVal txt As String) As String

and then stops at each line all the way till the end

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When I start at other points in the code it stops at various other lines

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[Legacy 68668]

It is not stopping, it's executing that line.

When it Stops, it will not execute the line anymore even you hit F8.

I need you to find out that line.

 

[chrisscotty]

It stops right away..how long should I leave it for??

 

[Legacy 68668]

Do a step debug for yourself

1) click somehwere on the code
2) As you hit F8, the code will execute one line
3) find out the line that stop the code.

Each time you hit F8, the code should execute one line.
That means, if no error, it is executing.

I need you to keep going by hitting F8 until Error, and find the line that give you the error.

 

[chrisscotty]

Ok

 

[chrisscotty]

It higlighted line after line (not every line ..different ones each time) and and it kept going down..went through it 3 times

Run Time Error 9, Subscript out of range.

Yet, it did not stop on one particular line when I got the error and no line was highlighted.

 

[Legacy 68668]

I think I found it

                            a(n, .item("Sate")) = y(0)

should be

                            a(n, .item("State")) = y(0)