u/live_from_Syracuse

Auto-add rows for a contest drawing

Auto-add rows for a contest drawing

I'm running a drawing for our summer reading program at the library, and I want to weight it so that patrons with multiple entries (sic. multiple books read) have multiple entries reflected in the spreadsheet. That way when I do the drawing those who have read/participated more have a higher chance of winning.

Currently have a spreadsheet where one row reflects patron name>>patron library branch>>number of entries that patron has.

I would like to edit the spreadsheet so that one row reflects one entry each. So if Andrea has ten entries, she has ten rows with one entry apiece.

I have tried multiple formulas and scripts I found in various other forums, editing that data to reflect my own sheet (ie "X" column changed to "D" column, etc) but keep encountering errors for parsing/data/etc.. I have also tried duplicating rows, which of course I can hit "insert row below" over and over to reflect how many entries a patron has, but some of these patrons have over 50 entries, and I have over 200 patrons to calculate...talk about inefficiency and ain't nobody got time for that.

Does anyone have either:

a) a shortcut to add those rows without continually hitting "insert 1 below" (I've tried all of the shortcuts I can find already but feel as if I'm missing something obvious)

OR

b) a formula/script I can run that will auto-add those rows across the sheet for me?

Sample of spreadsheet attached so you can see a subset of the data I'm working with.

**Patron's last names and branches have been removed for privacy, though there will be names/branches included in columns B/C when I do that actual drawing.

u/live_from_Syracuse — 1 day ago

Children's book about a mole in a garden

Looking for a children's book that is about a mole. What I remember is that it was a picture book down in colored pencil/sketchy style drawings (such as like James Mayhew's illustration style), it was about a mole who lived in a garden, and the garden was in front of a man's house. Similar to Peter Rabbit, the man made all sorts of inventions to try to get the mole out of the garden, but the mole ended up helping the man in the garden instead. I also remember the man rode a bike that was either blue or red. I had it when I was a kid, so in the 90s, meaning it couldn't have been published any later than 1999. Might have been British? There were no other animals, just the mole and the man.

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u/live_from_Syracuse — 21 days ago