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    Organizing data from Tab delimited source

    Hi,

    I need help in formatting a data dump of survey results from a DB into a readable format.

    Currently the data I have looks like this:

    User1 	Question1	Yes			3/15/2011  5:20:24 PM
    User1	Question2	Female			3/15/2011  5:22:20 PM
    User1	Question3	10-12			3/15/2011  5:24:24 PM
    User1 	Question4 	I Like peanuts		3/15/2011  5:26:24 PM
    User1	Question4	I like walnuts		3/15/2011  5:28:14 PM
    User1	Question4	I like chestnuts	3/15/2011  5:29:12 PM
    User2	Question1	No			3/15/2011  5:30:24 PM
    User2	Question2	Male			3/15/2011  5:31:44 PM
    User2	Question3	3-4			3/15/2011  5:31:44 PM
    User2	Question4	I Like almonds		3/15/2011  5:32:22 PM
    User2	Question4	I Like cashews		3/15/2011  5:33:12 PM
    User3	Question1	Yes			3/15/2011  5:34:12 PM
    User3	Question2	Male			3/15/2011  5:35:10 PM
    User3	Question3	4-5			3/15/2011  5:37:11 PM

    Some questions were multiple-choice and those questions could have as many as 30 choices to choose from.

    Basically I need to take these results and display them in a format like this (Q=question):

    USER	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4-1	Q4-2	Q4-3 	Q5
    User1	yes	female	10-12	1	0	1	6
    User2	yes	male	3-4	0	1	0	7
    User3	no	male	4-5	0	0	0	9
    So if Q4 had say 5 multi-choice answers, the top would be Q4-1, Q4-2, Q4-3, Q4-4, Q4-5
    And if Q10 had say 10 multi-choice answers, the top would be Q10-1, Q10-2 and so forth.

    For those columns that have multi-choice, need to detect which columns were picked and signify by a 1=yes 0=no for being chosen by that user (or 0 if the user left it blank for all columns)

    The survey had 40 questions that could have been answered by those participating. The survey ended, if they were directed from one question, to skip over others if they didn't meet the criteria to go onto the next one.


    I've tried pivot tables, and that helped, but the table only listed all the questions by the User down a column instead of across the top, which is what I'm looking to do.

    Help greatly appreciated.
    Last edited by Wizywyg; 03-23-2011 at 06:27 PM.

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