u/Babyhulk1293

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Is there a way to populate column 1 with the names from 2 other columns?

I am a volunteer for a local sports association. We need volunteers to make our competition days run smoothly, and I am trying to get the list of names on a million different documents (some CVS, some word, and some Excel) in to one solid document. I also am trying to track how many hours each person volunteers so that I can arrange a gift of sorts to the most generous people.

My main question:

Is there a way to automatically fill the "master list" column on the left (for example) with the names from the "list 1" and "list 2" columns, even if they appear multiple times? I have attached an example of what I mean, to the best of my ability. I have figured out how to do a Sumifs function to count the hours that apply just to "Brenda" for example, and have them saved so that I can track for each competition separately, as well as a total at the end of the year. But each competition has different people helping, and at different times, so I am trying to avoid manually having to go through each name entry in each competition... is that possible?

Secondly, one of the documents I was sent is an Excel with only column A used, which reads: the name of the person, next cell down empty, next cell down is their email, then another 2 cells down shows the next person. I think it has been copy pasted from an email list or something. Is there a function that can select each second cell with the email (for example) and move them to the B column on their own?

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u/Babyhulk1293 — 3 days ago

Looking for advice, suggestions or warning signs for replacing my current apple set up: a 2017 MacBook Pro and a 2018 iPad Pro. Both are clinging on to this job for me, but I know I have to replace at least one this year.

Both run fine, but the laptop now has a screen which is partially showing discolouration/problems, has already had a logic board replaced and about 30 keys replaced, and the iPad battery life is struggling and generally can get a bit slow and crash very occasionally (still doing pretty well considering age).

I had hoped to hold out for the EOFY sales this year, if needed. 

What I use them for: 

iPad: 

  • note taking for work with pdfexpert. Syncs to google drive for ease between laptop etc. 
  • very amateur level use of Procreate for illustrations for my website/media for work

Laptop: 

  • pdfexpert macOS app (doesnt work as well as the iPadOS version I find) 
  • Google suite 
  • Excel - simple business and accounting functions (trying to put this in to google sheets but just doesnt work quite as well for me) 
  • Canva
  • Wix website editing which is very difficult/impossible on my iPad.

I have previously hated using excel on an iPad, but I’ve been told the OS/interface has improved a lot since mine came out. Similarly editing my website without a laptop is hard. I am fairly well lodged in to the Apple sphere but open to suggestions for other

Fundamentally my question is: 

Powerful iPad and lower range MacBook or powerful MacBook and lower range iPad? Which balance have you gone for?

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u/Babyhulk1293 — 16 days ago