Excel - Transposing unsorted items - excel

Question

So lets say that I have a table like this..
TID Person Type Name
1 Andy F Orange
2 Andy M Beef
3 Andy V Carrot
4 Andy V Spinach
5 Bobby M Ham
6 Bobby F Apple
7 Bobby V Carrot
I want to transpose it so that it will be sorted according to the Type, I want it to look like so
Person F M V
Andy Orange Beef Carrot
Bobby Apple Ham Carrot
How can I manage to do this? Oh, and I'll also point some stuff in case you guys missed it:
The Types have no particular order, if you notice Andy's, the order is F M V V, but Bobby's is M F V.
Multiple instances of Type may occur, just like in Andy's case, notice the double V. But even so, I want it so that the only V that counts is the first one, thats why in the transposed table, the V is Carrot, because the Carrot occurred first (the Spinach is ignored).
I dont know if I ask too much, but even just the gist of the solution would be very helpful for me. The main point of my question is to ask how can I transpose such unsorted items, whilst paying attention to the 1st point. The 2nd point is important too, but I can wait or ask later if you guys dont feel like answering.
Thanks for reading, please share me your knowledge.

Answer 1

The easisest/quickest way is to create a new column before the TID column which has this formula in it.
=[Person]&"_"&[Type]
For instance say your data started in column B, see screen shots (TID), then the first formula would be:
=C2&"_"&D2 and will result in Andy_F being created. Copy this down for all the names you have.
You should have something like this:
NEW TID Person Type Name
Andy_F 1 Andy F Orange
Andy_M 2 Andy M Beef
Andy_V 3 Andy V Carrot
Andy_V 4 Andy V Spinach
Bobby_M 5 Bobby M Ham
Bobby_F 6 Bobby F Apple
Bobby_V 7 Bobby V Carrot
Next, set up a table like this (using copy unique items, if necessary), with unique names on the vertical and Types along the horizontal:
F M V
Andy [form]
Bobby
Where [form] is a vlookup formula as in the screen shots below:
Resulting in the correct table for you, once the formula is copied to all cells in the new table:
Vlookup will grab the first item that matches its search critera, so multiple matches will be ignored.
The formula for Andy F in the table is VLOOKUP($G2&"_"&H$1,$A$2:$E$8,5,0), with the data as in the screen shots.
A better way might be to use VBA, but this should do the trick.