将类别的列转换为Excel中的多行

Question

I have a spreadsheet of Chamber of Commerce members that looks like this:

COMPANY              CATEGORY 1             CATEGORY 2       CATEGORY 3
Ameriprise           Lending Institutions   Banks
Country Inn          Lodging                Hotels           Bed & Breakfast
FirstBanc            Lending Institutions   Banks
Gillespie Fair       Events                 Festivals

That I need to convert—on a new sheet—into this:

COMPANY              CATEGORY
Ameriprise           Banks
Ameriprise           Lending Institutions
Country Inn          Bed & Breakfast
Country Inn          Hotels
Country Inn          Lodging
Firstbanc            Banks
Firstbanc            Lending Institutions
Gillespie Fair       Events
Gillespie Fair       Festivals

In a nutshell, I need to produce multiple entries for the Company for every Category that business falls under. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

In data cleaning world, we call this reshaping a data frame from wide to long.

And there's a way to do it in Excel.

1. Hit this key combination: Alt DP . This will bring up PivotTable Wizard (Yup, not many know this.)

2. Select Multiple consolidation ranges . Click next.

3. Select I will create the page fields . Click next.

4. Select your data range. Click next.

5. Select the location to show to pivot table. Click next.

6. You'll see a pivot table appearing. In the PivotTable Field List, untick Row and Column .

7. You should be left with count of value and a number. Double click that cell. You'll see a new sheet with your converted data table.