Horizontal Range to Vertical Range in Excel

With the advent of Power Pivot the task of flipping data is made very simple. The Unpivot Other Columns command is a bit of a game changer. It easily moves data from horizontal to the more database friendly vertical range very nicely.

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Union An Excel Range and Transpose

I was asked by a colleague to transpose a range in blocks of 5 from horizontal to vertical.  The data was arranged in 7 columns but he wanted the data split into from tabular data to headings on the vertical and the body text going across the columns.  Each block of data was colour coded and this colour scheme was meant to be kept in the output page.  It is an interesting problem and I decided to include a union range so I could include the header row (giving meaning to the data) each time a block of 5 rows was copied and transposed to the new sheet.

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