Transferring data in Excel - excel

Question

I have a table where each row represents one logical value.
Sort of like this:
| January | Margaret | 10 |
| February | Jeff | 20 |
| March | William | 30 |
I want to transfer the data to another table, where the data would be modelled as following:
| | January | February | March
+----------+---------+----------+------
| Margaret | 10 | |
| Jeff | | 20 |
| William | | | 30
In the case of changes in the Table 1 same changes should be reflected in the Table 2
There are only 4 names and 12 months. Names are repeated A,B,C,D,A,B,C,D,A,B,C,D.
Numbers are 10-120. Obviously I can use = and click on the cell in the first table but I need more optimal solution. I can't figure it out. Any advise would be much appreciated!

Answer 1

It sounds like what you're trying to do is called a long to wide transformation. In this case, since you just have months, it might be easiest to create a table with your months as headers (i.e. January - December), and then write a INDEX/MATCH formula to fill it in.
Let's say this is your table, starting in cell A2
Date Name Value
January Jone 1
January Mike 2
January Bob 3
February Jone 4
February Mike 5
February Bob 6
Then create a table with a header row for the months, starting in B10
January February March April May June July August September October November December
And a column for the unique names, starting in A11
Jone
Mike
Bob
So the whole thing looks like this:
January February March ...
Jone
Mike
Bob
Then we use an INDEX/MATCH formula to fill in the table. Write this in cell B11, then fill down and across:
=INDEX($C$3:$C$8,MATCH(1, INDEX(($A11=$B$3:$B$8)*(B$10=$A$3:$A$8),0,1),0))
This says, return a value from C3:C8 where both A11 and B10 match in their respective ranges B3:B8 and A3:A8.
You end up with:
January February ...
Jone 1 4
Mike 2 5
Bob 3 6

Answer 2

You can use Get&Transform to
Pivot Column 1
Advanced Options: Don't Aggregate
Values Column: Column 3