I have this data in google sheets and the name can be more or less based on the data I want to convert it into separate column.
Name | Note |
---|---|
Josh | anything1 |
Mike | anything2 |
Peter | anything3 |
Nicole | anything4 |
Josh | anything5 |
Mike | anything6 |
Peter | anything7 |
Nicole | anything8 |
Josh | anything9 |
Mike | anything10 |
Peter | anything11 |
Nicole | anything12 |
Josh | anything13 |
Mike | anything14 |
Peter | anything15 |
Nicole | anything16 |
Josh | anything17 |
Mike | anything18 |
Peter | anything19 |
Nicole | anything20 |
Josh | anything21 |
Mike | anything22 |
Peter | anything23 |
Nicole | anything24 |
Josh | anything25 |
Mike | anything26 |
Peter | anything27 |
Nicole | anything28 |
Peter | anything29 |
Nicole | anything30 |
Peter | anything31 |
Nicole | anything32 |
Peter | anything33 |
Nicole | anything34 |
Peter | anything35 |
Nicole | anything36 |
This will be the last result.
Name | Note | Name | Note | Name | Note | Name | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Josh | anything1 | Mike | anything2 | Peter | anything3 | Nicole | anything4 |
Josh | anything5 | Mike | anything6 | Peter | anything7 | Nicole | anything8 |
Josh | anything9 | Mike | anything10 | Peter | anything11 | Nicole | anything12 |
Josh | anything13 | Mike | anything14 | Peter | anything15 | Nicole | anything16 |
Josh | anything17 | Mike | anything18 | Peter | anything19 | Nicole | anything20 |
Josh | anything21 | Mike | anything22 | Peter | anything23 | Nicole | anything24 |
Josh | anything25 | Mike | anything26 | Peter | anything27 | Nicole | anything28 |
Peter | anything29 | Nicole | anything30 | ||||
Peter | anything31 | Nicole | anything32 | ||||
Peter | anything33 | Nicole | anything34 | ||||
Peter | anything35 | Nicole | anything36 |
Your help will be much appreciated.
I tried using the 4 filter function but its result was not dynamic first I define the name then filter function come with result.
Your Filter approach is correct, dynamically running through it you use iterators of Google Sheets like Reduce like what I have used. Add a Choosecols to remove the additional array added on by the Reduce function. Sequence is just for generating the number of columns that was supposed to be in the array.
=CHOOSECOLS(REDUCE(,UNIQUE(A2:A), LAMBDA(a,c, IFNA(HSTACK(a,FILTER(A2:B, A2:A = c)),""))), SEQUENCE(1, COUNTA(UNIQUE(A2:A))*2, 2, 1))
Result:
Josh | anything1 | Mike | anything2 | Peter | anything3 | Nicole | anything4 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Josh | anything5 | Mike | anything6 | Peter | anything7 | Nicole | anything8 |
Josh | anything9 | Mike | anything10 | Peter | anything11 | Nicole | anything12 |
Josh | anything13 | Mike | anything14 | Peter | anything15 | Nicole | anything16 |
Josh | anything17 | Mike | anything18 | Peter | anything19 | Nicole | anything20 |
Josh | anything21 | Mike | anything22 | Peter | anything23 | Nicole | anything24 |
Josh | anything25 | Mike | anything26 | Peter | anything27 | Nicole | anything28 |
Peter | anything29 | Nicole | anything30 | ||||
Peter | anything31 | Nicole | anything32 | ||||
Peter | anything33 | Nicole | anything34 | ||||
Peter | anything35 | Nicole | anything36 |
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