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Sheets Tip 366: Stack lists with the magic of TOCOL
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Welcome to the Google Sheets Tips newsletter #366, your Monday morning espresso, in spreadsheet form! ➜ NewsI. II. ➜ Sheets Tip #366: Stack lists with the magic of TOCOLSuppose we have lists of names like this: In this example, there are 4 columns of names, of varying lengths. How can we combine them quickly and easily into a single list? Enter TOCOL. The TOCOL function flattens a range into a single column. It's like the FLATTEN function but has the advantage that you can specify whether to ignore blank cells. In our example, this formula ignores all the blank cells: =TOCOL(A1:D9,TRUE) A1:D9 is the range of the 4 columns. The second argument, TRUE, is us telling the TOCOL function to ignore the blanks. (Set it to FALSE or omit it if you want to keep the blanks.) Here it is in our Sheet: Easy! If you enjoyed this newsletter, please forward it to a friend who might enjoy it. Have a great week! Cheers, |
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