Help importing specific data from one sheet to another in the same workbook

[Fantasy_guy]

Hello all,

I play fantasy sports and I have created a spreadsheet that calculates projections. I have a master workbook that I start with every day. For example, for basketball, I have a sheet that has every player listed with all their relevant data. I further break this data down into separate sheets based on position. My 5 separate sheets are PG, SG, SF, PF, and C. How can I automatically pull each player from the first sheet, to their respective sheets based on whether they are a PG, SG, SF ,PF or C? Right now I am sorting and then copying and pasting. I would like to automate this. All I am looking for is their name. I can get it done with vlookup, but its messy and I have a bunch of 0's. Is there a way to pull just the PG's into one sheet and so forth? Sorry if I am rambling. This is my first post to this forum and I am looking forward to hearing from the experts. So far I am self-taught. Thanks

[AliGW]

Welcome to the forum!

Will you please attach a sample Excel workbook? We are not able to work with or manipulate a picture of one and nobody wants to have to recreate your data from scratch.

1. Make sure that your sample data are REPRESENTATIVE of your real data. The use of unrepresentative data is very frustrating and can lead to long delays in reaching a solution.

2. Make sure that your desired results are also shown (mock up the results manually).

3. Make sure that all confidential data is removed or replaced with dummy data first (e.g. names, addresses, E-mails, etc.).

4. Try to avoid using merged cells as they cause lots of problems.

Unfortunately the attachment icon doesn't work at the moment, so to attach an Excel file you have to do the following: just before posting, scroll down to Go Advanced and then scroll down to Manage Attachments. Now follow the instructions at the top of that screen.

Please pay particular attention to point 2 (above): without an idea of your intended outcomes, it is often very difficult to offer appropriate advice.

[Fantasy_guy]

Ok, I think I figured out how to attach so here goes.

[AliGW]

I don't think you read my instructions fully. Please see point 2 above (in bold).

[Fantasy_guy]

Yes, i just saw that. Sorry. Correcting now.

[AliGW]

Just a few lines to give us an idea will do.

[JohnTopley]

In A2 of "PG"

=IFERROR(INDEX(Everybody!A$2:A$1000,SMALL(IF(Everybody!$C$2:$C$1000="PG",ROW(Everybody!$A$2:$A$1000)-ROW($A$2)+1,""),ROWS($A$2:A2))),"")

...confirmed by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to activate the array, not just ENTER. You will know the array is active when you see curly braces { } appear around your formula. If you do not CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER you will get an error or a clearly incorrect answer.

Then copy across to B (and C) and down

For other sheets change "PG"

[Fantasy_guy]

Ok, so here is the sheet with the desired outcome.

[Fantasy_guy]

In A2 of "PG"

=IFERROR(INDEX(Everybody!A$2:A$1000,SMALL(IF(Everybody!$C$2:$C$1000="PG",ROW(Everybody!$A$2:$A$1000)-ROW($A$2)+1,""),ROWS($A$2:A2))),"")

...confirmed by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to activate the array, not just ENTER. You will know the array is active when you see curly braces { } appear around your formula. If you do not CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER you will get an error or a clearly incorrect answer.

Then copy across to B (and C) and down

For other sheets change "PG"

That's Fantastic. I thought it had something to do with the index function, I just couldn't figure it out. Thanks for the help. You are awesome.

[AliGW]

If that takes care of your original question, please select Thread Tools from the menu link above and mark this thread as SOLVED. Thanks.

[Fantasy_guy]

If that takes care of your original question, please select Thread Tools from the menu link above and mark this thread as SOLVED. Thanks.

Done. I was looking for how to do this earlier.