TEXTJOIN for xl2010/xl2013 with criteria

Question

I have 2 worksheets. The 1st worksheet has about 100 rows but we are only interested column Y. The cells in column Y has a mixture of blank cells (""), text and numbers, and cells that displays #N/A. Similar to the picture but with a bigger data-set.

In the 2nd worksheet, there is a cell that I would like to capture the cells with 'texts and numbers' and display it each record in a different line within the same cell (e.g. if there were 12 out of a 100 cells with 'texts and numbers', then I would like to display this information in a particular cell in the 2nd worksheet. Like this:

I have tried something like this but it seems to only capture the 1st row of text only (e.g. the title row):

=IFERROR(INDEX('1Comms'!Y:Y,MATCH(TRUE,'1Comms'!Y:Y<>"",0)),"")

Is there a way to miss off the title as well?

What am I doing wrong and is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

This TextJoinIfs user-defined-function (aka UDF) provides basic TEXTJOIN functionality to Excel 2003 - 2013 versions as well as expanded functionality for all versions by adding optional error control, uniqueness, sorting and a paramarray of conditions for easy criteria.

This TextJoinIfs UDF code belongs in a public module code sheet; e.g. Book1 - Module1 (code).

Option Explicit

Public Function TextJoinIfs(delim As String, iOptions As Long, iIgnoreHeaderRows As Long, _
                            rng As Range, ParamArray pairs()) As Variant
    'TEXTJOINIFS - Basic TEXTJOIN functionality for XL2003-XL2013 versions
    '              Expanded TEXTJOINIFS functionality for all versions
    ' =TextJoinIfs(<delimiter>, <options>, <header_rows>, <string_range>, [criteria_range1, criteria1], [criteria_range2, criteria2], …)
    '        OPTIONS
    '     +2 Include blanks
    '     +4 Include worksheet errrors
    '     +8 Unique list
    '     +16 Sort ascending (cannot be used with 17)
    '     +17 Sort descending (cannot be used with 16)

    If Not CBool(UBound(pairs) Mod 2) Then
        TextJoinIfs = CVErr(xlErrValue)
        Exit Function
    End If

    Dim i As Long, j As Long, a As Long, arr As Variant
    Dim bIncludeBlanks As Boolean, bIncludeErrors As Boolean, bUniqueList As Boolean
    Dim bSorted As Boolean, bDescending As Boolean

    bIncludeBlanks = CBool(2 And iOptions)
    bIncludeErrors = CBool(4 And iOptions)
    bUniqueList = CBool(8 And iOptions)
    bSorted = CBool(16 And iOptions)
    bDescending = CBool(1 And iOptions)

    Set rng = Intersect(rng, rng.Parent.UsedRange.Offset(iIgnoreHeaderRows - rng.Parent.UsedRange.Rows(1).Row + 1, 0))

    With rng
        ReDim arr(.Cells.Count)
        If Not IsMissing(pairs) Then
            For i = LBound(pairs) To UBound(pairs) Step 2
                Set pairs(i) = pairs(i).Resize(rng.Rows.Count, rng.Columns.Count).Offset(iIgnoreHeaderRows, 0)
            Next i
        End If

        For j = 1 To .Cells.Count
            If CBool(Len(.Cells(j).Text)) Or bIncludeBlanks Then
                If Not IsError(.Cells(j)) Or bIncludeErrors Then
                    If IsError(Application.Match(.Cells(j).Text, arr, 0)) Or Not bUniqueList Then
                        If IsMissing(pairs) Then
                            arr(a) = .Cells(j).Text
                            a = a + 1
                        Else
                            For i = LBound(pairs) To UBound(pairs) Step 2
                                If Not CBool(Application.CountIfs(pairs(i).Cells(j), pairs(i + 1))) Then Exit For
                            Next i
                            If i > UBound(pairs) Then
                                arr(a) = .Cells(j).Text
                                a = a + 1
                            End If
                        End If
                    End If
                End If
            End If
        Next j
    End With

    ReDim Preserve arr(a - 1)

    If bSorted Then
        Dim tmp As String
        For i = LBound(arr) To UBound(arr) - 1
            For j = i + 1 To UBound(arr)
                If CBool(LCase(CStr(arr(i))) < LCase(CStr(arr(j))) And bDescending) Xor _
                   CBool(LCase(CStr(arr(i))) > LCase(CStr(arr(j))) And Not bDescending) Then
                    tmp = arr(j): arr(j) = arr(i): arr(i) = tmp
                End If
            Next j
        Next i
    End If

    TextJoinIfs = Join(arr, delim)
End Function

Syntax:

=TextJoinIfs(<delimiter>, <options>, <header_rows>, <string_range>, [criteria_range1, criteria1], [criteria_range2, criteria2], …)

Documentation

Example 1

Simple TextJoin operation discarding blanks and errors, keeping only unique strings. Concatenated with a line feed (vbLF) delimiter but ignoring the first two header rows and sorted ascending.

=textjoinifs(CHAR(10), 24, 2, A:A)

Example 2

Expanded TextJoinIfs operation discarding blanks and errors, keeping only unique strings. Concatenated with a semi-colon/space delimiter. One condition set of range and criteria.

=textjoinifs("; ", 8, 0, B:B, A:A, A2)

Example 3

Expanded TextJoinIfs operation discarding blanks and errors. Concatenated with a comma/space delimiter. Multiple condition pairs using maths comparisons.

=textjoinifs(", ", 0, 0, B:B, A:A, ">="&D2, A:A, "<="&E2)

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