Excel VBA: How to transform this kind of cells? - excel

Question

I am not sure if the title is correct. Please correct me if you have a better idea.
Here is my problem: Please see the picture.
This excel sheet contains only one column, let's say ColumnA. In ColumnA there are some cells repeat themselvs in the continued cells twice or three times (or even more).
I want to have the excel sheet transformed according to those repeated cells. For those items which repeat three times or more, keep only two of them.
[Shown in the right part of the picture. There are three Bs originally, target is just keep two Bs and delete the rest Bs.]
It's a very difficult task for me. To make it easier, it's no need to delete the empty rows after transformation.
Any kind of help will be highly appreciated. Thanks!
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Update:
Please see the picture. Please dont delete the items if they show again...

Answer 1

EDITED - SEE BELOW Try this. Data is assumed to be in "Sheet1", and ordered data is written to "Results". I named your repeted data (A, B, C, etc) as sMarker, and values in between as sInsideTheMarker. If markers are not consecutive, the code will fail.
Private Sub ReOrderData()
Dim lLastRow As Long
Dim i As Integer
Dim a As Integer
Dim j As Integer
Dim sMarker As String
Dim sInsideTheMarker As String
'Get number of rows with data:
lLastRow = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Row
j = 0
k = 1
a = 2
'Scan all rows with data:
For i = 1 To lLastRow
If (Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(i + 1, 1).Value = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(i, 1).Value) Then 'If two consecutive cells holds the same value
j = j + 1
If j = 1 Then
k = k + 1
a = 2
sMarker = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(i, 1).Value
Worksheets("Results").Cells(k, 1).Value = sMarker
End If
Else 'If not same values in consecutive cells
sInsideTheMarker = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(i, 1).Value
Worksheets("Results").Cells(k, a).Value = sInsideTheMarker
a = a + 1
j = 0
End If
Next i
End Sub
EDITION: If you want results in the same sheet ("Sheet1"), and keep the empty rows for results to look exactly as your question, try the following
Private Sub ReOrderData()
Dim lLastRow As Long
Dim i As Integer
Dim a As Integer
Dim j As Integer
Dim sMarker As String
Dim sInsideTheMarker As String
'Get number of rows with data:
lLastRow = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Row
j = 0
k = 1
a = 5
'Scan all rows with data:
For i = 1 To lLastRow
If (Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(i + 1, 1).Value = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(i, 1).Value) Then 'If two consecutive cells holds the same value
j = j + 1
If j = 1 Then
k = i
a = 5
sMarker = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(i, 1).Value
Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(k, 4).Value = sMarker
End If
Else 'If not same values in consecutive cells
sInsideTheMarker = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(i, 1).Value
Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(k, a).Value = sInsideTheMarker
a = a + 1
j = 0
End If
Next i
End Sub

Answer 2

If you can delete the values that have more than two counts, then I suggest that this might work:
Sub count_macro()
Dim a As Integer
Dim b As Integer
a = 1
While Cells(a, 1) <> ""
b = WorksheetFunction.CountIf(Range("A1:A1000"), Cells(a, 1))
If b > 2 Then
Cells(a, 1).Delete Shift:=xlUp
End If
b = 0
a = a + 1
Wend
End Sub

Answer 3

This should do it. It takes input in column A starting in Row 2 until it ends, and ignores more than 2 same consecutive values. Then it copies them in sets and pastes them transposed. If your data is in a different column and row, change the sourceRange variable and the i variable accordingly.
Sub SETranspose()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim sourceRange As range
Dim copyRange As range
Dim myCell As range
Set sourceRange = range("A2", Cells(Rows.count, 1).End(xlUp))
Dim startCell As range
Set startCell = sourceRange(1, 1)
Dim i As Integer
Dim haveTwo As Boolean
haveTwo = True
For i = 3 To Cells(Rows.count, 1).End(xlUp).Row + 1
If Cells(i, 1).Value = startCell.Value Then
If haveTwo Then
range(startCell, Cells(i, 1)).Copy
startCell.Offset(0, 4).PasteSpecial Transpose:=True
Application.CutCopyMode = False
haveTwo = False
End If
End If
'if the letter changes or end of set, then copy the set over
'If LCase(Left(Cells(i, 1).Value, 1)) <> LCase(startCell.Value) Or _
'i = Cells(Rows.count, 1).End(xlUp).Row + 1 Then
If Len(Cells(i, 1).Value) > 1 Then
Set copyRange = Cells(i, 1)
copyRange.Copy
Cells(startCell.Row, Columns.count).End(xlToLeft).Offset(0, 1).PasteSpecial
Application.CutCopyMode = False
'Set startCell = sourceRange(i - 1, 1)
ElseIf Len(Cells(i, 1).Value) = 1 And Cells(i, 1).Value <> startCell.Value Then
Set startCell = sourceRange(i - 1, 1)
haveTwo = True
End If
Next i
'clear up data
Set sourceRange = Nothing
Set copyRange = Nothing
Set startCell = Nothing
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub