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    VBA: Copy data from every other row, paste it in previous row, delete copied row

    Hi all!

    A team I work with sends us reports that we want to put in a database, unfortunately the data for one entry is on multiple lines and it had data that was uneeded. I figured out how to delete the unneeded data and get rid of the blank spaces, just having trouble with the last part which is copying the data in every other row, pasting it in the previous row then deleting the copied row. Fig.1 is what I have currently, I want my data to look like Fig.2.

    I found the following code, but don't know how I could make this work for x amount of rows or my range:

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    Fig.1

    dataR1
    data11 data12 data13 data14 data15 data16
    dataR2
    data21 data22 data23 data24 data25 data26
    dataR3
    data31 data32 data33 data34 data35 data36


    Fig.2

    dataR1 data11 data12 data13 data14 data15
    dataR2 data21 data22 data23 data24 data25
    dataR3 data31 data32 data33 data34 data35

    Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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    Re: VBA: Copy data from every other row, paste it in previous row, delete copied row

    Record yourself selecting range A1:A18

    Then selecting Home, Find, Goto Special, Blanks

    then Right clicking on a selected cell

    then selecting Delete, Entire Row.

    You will get this:

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    Which can be reduced to:

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    Re: VBA: Copy data from every other row, paste it in previous row, delete copied row

    Something like this...
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    Re: VBA: Copy data from every other row, paste it in previous row, delete copied row

    Thanks so much Sintek! this is what I needed, just getting the following error when I run it though

    Run-time error '1004' : Method 'Range' of object'_Global' failed
    I know it has to do with Range, but B:G is the range on the sheet, so don't understand why it's doing this.

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    Re: VBA: Copy data from every other row, paste it in previous row, delete copied row

    I'm thinking you should specify the sheet....that works for activeSheet only

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    Thanks for rep +
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    Re: VBA: Copy data from every other row, paste it in previous row, delete copied row

    You're welcome, sintek. I figured out what the issue was by debugging.

    When the For loop hits 1, the error occurs so I changed the code to exit the loop when I= 1

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    Thanks for all the help!

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    Re: VBA: Copy data from every other row, paste it in previous row, delete copied row

    Nice one John..Did not see that coming...
    perhaps this could also solve?
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    Re: VBA: Copy data from every other row, paste it in previous row, delete copied row

    Thanks sintek. That works as well.

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