Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Switch Excel Columns to Rows

Have you ever wanted to change a column of data into a row in Excel?
Here's how you do it:

1. Open the spreadsheet you need to change.
2. Click the first cell of your data range such as D1 (Third Quarter in figure 1).
3. Shift-click the last cell of the range. Your selection should highlight.
4. Right click and select Copy from the right-click context menu (figure 1). Or go to the Edit menu and select Copy.


figure 1

5. Click on the Cell you want to paste the range of data. We will use A7.
6. Right click cell A7. From the Right-click context menu, select Paste Special... (figure 2).


figure 2

7. The Paste Special dialog should appear (figure 3).
8. Click the checkbox for Transpose.


figure 3

9. ..Click OK.
10. Your data from D1:D5 is now displayed in Row(A7:E7) (figure 4).


figure 4

You can go from columns to rows, or rows to columns using the same procedure.
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