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  1. 11-24-2009, 12:04 AM #1
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    G'day,
    I've data in a sheet (case1) which I would like to paste in a new sheet (case2) in the shown format. Is there any easy way of automating this? I tried recording a macro & tried somehow to automate this task but gave up after a few tries? Any tips/help would be really appreciated.

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    Re: Automating repeated copy/paste

    Hello samab,

    Welcome to the Forum!

    It looks as though most of your cases are unique. I did find this one, CASE AA012104, which has 2 entries. Is each entry to be formatted as you have on the Case 2 worksheet?
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    Re: Automating repeated copy/paste

    thanks mate...
    yeah all the entries were intended to be unique......i guess the alpha (9th) in col B entries somehow missed out during formatting....here is the workbook again with the correction...
    i would like each entry to be formatted as shown in "case2" as the intention is to save it as .txt file to be loaded in another software...
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    Re: Automating repeated copy/paste

    Hello samab,

    Well, still not all unique. Found this pair right off...
    CASE AA012104H 0 0.5 0.001 5698
    CASE AA012104H 0 0.5 0.001 8477

    I can have the macro choose one if there is some rule to the choice. That will save you the trouble of cleaning up the file again.
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    Re: Automating repeated copy/paste

    sorry for the trouble mate....i guess all the entries (in col B) are unique in that their corresponding values in col F are different ...can this be applied as a rule??? if not the other option/rule would be that if the two entries in col B are same, choose the one which has the highest value in col F
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    Re: Automating repeated copy/paste

    Hello samab,

    I'll go with the first rule and see what the results are like. So far, it looks like it will work.
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    Re: Automating repeated copy/paste

    Hello samab,

    The data appears to be fine so I left out any checking for now. I added a button on sheet Case2 to run the macro below. Let me know how this works out. Here is the macro code.
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    crikey.....this is exactly wot i wanted mate.....macro works a treat..u r a legend!!!
    not urgent but if n when u get time i wud luv to c how the macro wud look if we were to go with the 2nd option/rule...
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    Re: Automating repeated copy/paste

    Hello samab,

    I can do that. I am going to get some rest and tackle that in the morning.
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