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How would I transpose repeating rows and columns in Excel. For example how would I transpose the repeating pattern of rows (Tan color) to repeating columns (Purple). Would I need to do this in VBA and are there some built in functions. Actual worksheet has 8,000 rows which need to be transposed.

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  • [How do I transpose data in columns to rows?](http://superuser.com/q/398257) might get you started. – DavidPostill Aug 24 '15 at 18:42
  • Does the original data have a constant number of rows in each group? In that case, the `OFFSET` function, using (pseudocode): row = fixed_heigth * target_column and column = row modulo fixed_height. Let us know what you have tried and where you are stuck. – agtoever Aug 25 '15 at 07:26
  • @agtoever would you please elaborate your comment as an answer? I'm also interested in the solution. From what I understand, yes, it does have a constant number of rows in each group. – Lucas Pottersky Jan 22 '16 at 17:26

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This one's for you, @LucasPottersky

If you have the tan data and you want to transpose it to the purple data, here is a formula by which you may do that. This formula only works because the specific example in OP's question has repeating data. If your data does not repeat, this will not work for you.

=INDEX($B$2:$D$16,MATCH(G$1,$G$1:$K$1,0),MATCH($F2,$B$1:$D$1,0))

$B$2:$D$16 is the range containing all the tan data but not the headers.

MATCH(G$1,$G$1:$K$1,0) returns the row we want

MATCH($F2,$B$1:$D$1,0) returns the column we want

You'll have to manually copy / paste the headers and the formula for as many rows as is needed.

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