Excel: rows into columns by category - excel

Question

i have a excel sheet that looks like this:
Category Value
X 1
X 2
X 3
X 4
Y 1
Z 1
Z 2
And I would like to transform it into categories and get value rows into columns. Like that:
Category Value1 Value2 Value3 Value4
X 1 2 3 4
Y 1
Z 1 2
Guys, any idea how to do it? I am really stuck with it.
many thanks.

Answer 1

Walk up your data from the bottom to the top, reorganizing as you go.
Option Explicit
Sub expandValues()
Dim i As Long, mx As Long, arr As Variant, tmp As Variant
With Worksheets("sheet7")
'determine no of values and create new headers
For i = 1 To Application.Max(.Columns("B"))
.Cells(1, i + 1) = "value" & i
Next i
'transfer values
For i = .Cells(.Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Row To 3 Step -1
If .Cells(i, "A").Value2 = .Cells(i - 1, "A").Value2 Then
With .Range(.Cells(i, "B"), .Cells(i, .Columns.Count).End(xlToLeft))
.Parent.Cells(i - 1, 3).Resize(1, .Columns.Count) = .Value2
End With
.Cells(i, "A").EntireRow.Delete
End If
Next i
End With
End Sub

Answer 2

If I m not mistaking you can simply use a pivot table:
It will make you pass from this:
to this:
you just need to put the two columns in the rows columns and values as of below:
After that you can just change the names of your columns

Answer 3

Here's the formula approach ,
First write this array formula in cell C2 and press Ctrl+Shift+Enter to find unique values from column A (i.e. X, Y, Z) and drag it down.
=IFERROR(INDEX($A$2:$A$8, MATCH(0, COUNTIF($C$1:C1, $A$2:$A$8), 0)),"")
Now fill your column headers for value1 , value2 and so on.
Finally write this formula in cell D2 and drag it to right and down.
=IF(COUNTIFS($A$2:$A$8,$C2,$B$2:$B$8,RIGHT(D$1,1))>0,RIGHT(D$1,1)*1,"")