converting column of text to text box for repetitive records

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bilboda - ExcelForums.com

Hi,
I have a spreadsheet which contains employee information including
job
skills. My problem is that each skill (cook,candlemaker, etc.)creates
a new
row for that employee, duplicating fields that don't change, name,
ss#,etc
with the only new info in the row being the skill
Like this:
Jane doe,123456789,555-555-5555,cook
Jane doe,123456789,555-555-5555,candlemaker
What I want is 1 row for each employee with the last column containing
all
the skills in a text box or separated by commas. Is there an easy way
to do
this in Excel? Or even Access?
To clarify, I want to convert all skills listed in the skill column
for each
employee to one cell in that row:
|Jane doe |123456789 | 555-555-5555 | candlemaker, cook |


Thanks
 
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David DeRolph

Makes no sense whatsoever. Who is Clark? And, what does the fact that he
was happy with a suggestion at another post have to do with this?
 
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Dave Peterson

Sometimes people post under different aliases and sometimes they multipost to
different newsgroups.

Bilboda also posted under Clark Mobley in microsoft.public.excel.
Subject: Re: converting column of text to text box for repetitive records

My response was a warning to others who may read this message that Bilboda/Clark
had a solution and nobody should invest any time on another response.

Here's a link to Clark's other post:
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]
(one line in your browser)

Google will soon scoop up the suggestion with which Clark was happy.


David said:
Makes no sense whatsoever. Who is Clark? And, what does the fact that he
was happy with a suggestion at another post have to do with this?
 

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