Unstack and Restack Data in Excel

Stack Columns with Blank Rows

If you have multiple columns of data and would like to stack your data into a single column, use this tool. It will automatically place a blank row between your different data sets!

NOTE: Included in the January 2021 release, this functionality is utilized if an end user has multiple columns in their data set and chooses to create a single-column Variable Control Chart (e.g. XmR Chart).

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Stack Data by Columns

Sometimes you need to stack several columns of data into fewer columns or even into one column. QI Macros will prompt you for how many columns of data you want to end up with. In this example, we chose "1". QI Macros leaves the original data and makes a copy into the new format:

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Stack or Restack (i.e. from 6x6 to 3x12)

Stack or Restack takes any size table and switches the data into as many columns as you choose. You can increase or decrease the number of columns:

Data Before 6x6 Table

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Data After 3x12 Table

Unstack by Label

Unstack by Label takes any size table and unstacks it based on the labels in column A:

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Unstack by Multi Label

This functionality is designed to take a column of data that has multiple labels (e.g. entity and shift) and group it into columns for each label combination (i.e. entity - shift):

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Unstack by Subgroup

Using any number of columns, Unstack by Subgroup will use the number of samples per subgroup (in this case 4) and unstack the data. This function is generally used to go from one column to many:

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Unstack Matrix to List

This functionality is designed to take a group of multi-column data that has multiple labels and groups them into a single-column list of data:

NOTE: Included in the April 2020 release, the Unstack Matrix is now able to process zeroes within your data set.

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