I had two tables downloaded from Amazon:
Items
Order Date Order ID Title Category 1/26/14 102-4214073-2201835 Everyday Paleo Family Cookbook 1/13/14 115-8766132-0234619 Awesome Book A 1/13/14 115-8766132-0234619 Awesome Book B
and
Orders
Order Date Order ID Subtotal 1/6/14 102-6956821-1091413 $43.20 1/13/14 115-8766130-0234619 $19.42 1/16/14 109-8688911-2954602 $25.86
I’m building our Q1 2014 taxes and needed rows in the following format:
1/13/14 115-8766132-0234619 $22.43 Awesome Book A, Awesome Book B
In order to do this without using SQL, I did the following. If columns B corresponds to Order Id and C corresponds to the item Title, then I put the following formula in column N3
=+IF(B3=B2,N2 & " | " &C2,C3)
and in column O3 a column which might be named: “last before change?”:
=+IF(B3=B4,"", TRUE)
Then I could easily sort out the unwanted values. Done. Still, I would like to better automate this. Any thoughts appreciated.
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