Skipping Cells in Excel

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Hello Experts,

To postulate this relatively simple issue i am going to use an example:

Let us assume that in Sheet 2 the required data is the the following cells: C4,H4,M4,R4......etc

I would like to show this data in Sheet 1 A1,B1,C1,D1.......etc

I have tried to input the first 3 cells manually, and dragging the cells, hoping that it would repeat the pattern, but this was useless.

Any tips please?

Posted 14-Jan-15 3:03am

Gilmore Sacco

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CHill60 · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-14T03:50:00

Try this formula in the Sheet 1 cells...

=OFFSET(Sheet2!$C1, 0, 5 * (COLUMN()-1))

By way of explanation COLUMN() will return the column number for the cell containing the formula so for

A1   B1   C1   D1
1    2    3    4     etc...

The data you want is every 5th column (once the pattern starts) hence the 5 *

OFFSET returns the value from the cell (in this case) 0 rows away from the initial starting point (C1) and the calculated number of columns away from the same starting cell.

The -1 is because in A1 I want the value of the starting cell and the $C1 is because I always want to calculate from the same point (otherwise Excel will change this to D, E etc as you drag the formula across)

Edit - changed the sheet number to the correct one!! Sorry about that.