I have the recurring need to concatenate values in an Excel Table but especially only unfiltered visible cells. (One common use case of mine is to get a list of Jira Issue Keys to easily link to multiple issues)
I explain here to solutions I know and share a VBA macro to do this in one click.
YouTube Tutorial
Manually with Formula
- Format as Table. Insert-> (Tables) Table
- Insert a Column to the Left named 'Selected'
- Select by marking the selected rows with 1 in the 'Selected' Column
- Insert another Column e.g. 'KeySelected' with the formula =IF([@Selected],[@Key],"")
- Concatenated Keys can be calculated with the formula: =TEXTJOIN(", ",TRUE,[KeySelected])
VBA Macro
The key part of the code is the line:
Set rng = tblSelected.DataBodyRange.Columns(cCell.Column - tblSelected.HeaderRowRange.Column + 1)
TableColumnToText = ConvertToText(rng.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible), sDelim)
One can easily implement such a macro to an Excel AddIn Ribbon button. Comment below if you want me to explain how I do this.
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