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    milehighfreak is offline Novice
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    Cool Extracting data from a disastrous excel-style Table

    I have a friend who collected hundreds of surveys from different college dorms across the state. Instead of asking me to database it all for him, he decided to give it a shot himself. He's wound up putting everything he collected into one single table, complete with duplicate dorm names and rooms down the columns, and everything filled out sideways.



    I offered to fix it but I'm stumped. The topleft table is roughly the format he's put the surveys in; the three tables on the right I created manually to try to work backwards to a solution, and the form is based on the basic query of those tables.

    I want to be able to turn the table on the left into something approaching the much better setup on the right. How can I go about it without him having to type everything out again? Thanks a ton.

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    milehighfreak is offline Novice
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    example

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    milehighfreak is offline Novice
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    Partially solved it myself, folks. Did it only using 2000 too. Woop woop.

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