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Rishek
06-19-2017, 11:03 AM
Apologies for Awful Thread Title. Forgot to edit before Posting.

So I've been formatting a fairly complex schedule and using some macros from various people on this forum (gmayor, mdmackillop, xld among others) to extract data from that document for use in crosschecking times. Now I'm on to tweaks.

I'm trying to reformat a table that looks like this



10:00am – 1:00pm
Rehearsal
Steve, Bill, Dave
On Stage


10:30am
ADD
Laura, Catherine



10:45am
REL
Dave



11:00am
ADD
Patricia



12:00pm
ADD/REL
ADD: Fran; REL: Bill, Patricia




ADD means someone is added to a rehearsal. REL means they are released at that time. To extract the data in a list of times for each name, I need to rejig the data, which I'm currently doing manually so that each person's name only appears once and in the same row as the correct times for their rehearsal. So the above data would be this:



10:00am – 1:00pm
Rehearsal
Steve
On Stage


10:30am – 1:00pm

Laura, Catherine
On Stage


10:00 – 10:45am

Dave
On Stage


11:00am – 12:00pm

Patricia
On Stage


10:00am – 12:00pm

Bill
On Stage


12:00 – 1:00pm

Fran
On Stage



The location also needs to be added the row (it's always the last location listed in the fourth column).

ADD seems like it'd be easier, since that only needs the end time and the location added.

REL needs to have a start time added and the name deleted from the original entry. ADD/REL is annoying, since it's both and occasionally I have to REL someone who has been ADDed, which is more complex.

Currently, I highlight the times and locations in the rows that need to be edited with blue text, copy the relevant table to a new document, and then do all of this manually (adding new rows) before extracting the whole thing to excel.

Any ideas on how I might get started with this?