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How to populate rows based on specified cell value in Excel?

Author: Siluvia Last Modified: 2024-09-26

Supposing you have a project table with corresponding person’s name who is in charge of each project as below screenshot shown. And now you need to list out all project names in rows based on given person, how to achieve it? Actually an array formula in this article can help you solve the problem.

populate rows based on specified cell value

Populate rows based on specified cell value with array formula

Populate rows based on specified cell value with array formula

Please do as follows to populate rows with the corresponding record based on given value in Excel.

1. Select a blank cell, enter the below formula into it and then press the Ctrl + Shift + Enter keys.

=IFERROR(INDEX(Sheet2!A$1:A$10,SMALL(IF(Sheet2!B$1:B$10=D$2,ROW(A$1:A$10)),ROWS(D$2:D2))),"")

apply a formual to populate rows based on specified cell value

Note: in the formula, Sheet2 is the name of current worksheet, A$1:A$10 is the column range contains all project names (include header), B$1:B$10 is the column range contains all person names (include header), and D$2 is the cell contains the person name you will populate rows based on. Please change them as you need.

2. Select the first result cell, drag the Fill Handle down to fill all rows with corresponding task names. See screenshot:

drag the Fill Handle down to fill all specific cell values

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