Hello,

I have this very wide spread sheet that I need to change it from horizon to vertical. To give you a rough idea, the original data layout looks like this:

|||01/01/2007|01/02/2007|01/03/2007|...|06/29/2007|

|JOHN DOE|Event1|PARTY|CLASS|WORK|...|VACATION|

|JOHN D0E|Event2|CLASS|CLASS|WORK|...|PARTY|

|JANE DOE|Event1|PARTY|CLASS|WORK|...|VACATION|

|JANE DOE|Event2|CLASS|CLASS|WORK|...|PARTY|

...

I would change the layout to the below format:

|JOHN DOE|01/01/2007|EVENT1|PARTY|

|JOHN DOE|01/02/2007|EVENT1|CLASS|

|JOHN DOE|01/03/2007|EVENT1|WORK|

|JOHN DOE|06/29/2007|EVENT1|VACATION|

...

|JOHN DOE|01/01/2007|EVENT2|CLASS|

|JOHN DOE|01/02/2007|EVENT2|CLASS|

|JOHN DOE|01/03/2007|EVENT2|WORK|

|JOHN DOE|06/29/2007|EVENT2|PARTY|

...

Is there an easy way to do it?

I'd greatly appreciate if you could please help me out.

In reply to How to Change Data Layout from Horizon to Vertical by Anonymous Monk

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