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Challenge #53: Parsing Report Formatted Data

estherb47
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

Amazing variety of solutions!! I went without macros

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Slightly different approach. To add a Header ID field to be used in crosstab, I used Smart Tile. Also used a Multi Field formula tool to clean up the text columns that had empty values or # (replace with N/A)

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LordNeilLord
15 - Aurora

Solution:

 

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Natasha
9 - Comet

Similar to others without macro

 

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nick_ceneviva
11 - Bolide

Solution attached

patrick_digan
17 - Castor
17 - Castor
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samN
10 - Fireball

Thought i should actually use some other widgets so i challenged myself to not use regex this time... I succeeded but am going back to it the next challenge i get. 

ggruccio
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

Regex tools made this one quick!

LandonG
8 - Asteroid

Solution attached.

PhilipMannering
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

Kept my workflow quite simple. Solution attached.

 

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jasperlch
12 - Quasar

Solution attached,