{"id":9957,"date":"2019-05-09T11:39:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T09:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/?p=9957"},"modified":"2023-11-30T17:43:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T16:43:49","slug":"transpose-formula-in-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/transpose-formula-in-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"TRANSPOSE Formula in Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What does it do?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Converts a vertical range of cells to horizontal, or vice versa<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Formula breakdown:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>=TRANSPOSE(<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">array<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What it means:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>=TRANSPOSE(<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">the horizontal or vertical range of cells that you want to flip the orientation<\/span>)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Let us say you have a horizontal table, and you want to flip it to become a vertical table, did you know that there is an Excel formula that can do that for you? That&#8217;s right, let us use the\u00a0<strong>TRANSPOSE Formula!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whenever you use this function, you should treat it as an <strong>array formula<\/strong> and it is very easy to do! You can use this to transform your horizontal table to a vertical table, or the other way around from a vertical table to a horizontal one.<\/p>\n<p>I explain how you can do this below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"after-post-box\">\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hZu71xPlADY?rel=0 \" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/MyExcelOnlinecomtutorials?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignmiddle wp-image-111468 size-full\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1.yt_.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"line-two\"><a class=\"IRPP_minimalist icon-download button small\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TRANSPOSE-FORMULA.xlsx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-leadbox=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TRANSPOSE-FORMULA.xlsx\" data-leadbox-id=\"147284833f72a2:12f08263ab46dc\"><span class=\"ctaText px-3 text-capitalize\">Download excel workbook<i class=\"fa fa-download\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"postTitle px-3\">TRANSPOSE-FORMULA.xlsx<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"line-two\">\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>STEP 1:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Make sure to select your target table first with the same number of cells.<\/p>\n<p>You can see we have selected a\u00a0<strong>horizontal table\u00a0<\/strong>that has the same number of cells (5 by 2) when compared to the original\u00a0<strong>vertical table <\/strong>(2 by 5):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"TRANSPOSE Formula in Excel\"  class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10157\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TRANSPOSE-FORMULA-01.jpg\" alt=\"TRANSPOSE Formula in Excel\" width=\"978\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TRANSPOSE-FORMULA-01.jpg 978w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TRANSPOSE-FORMULA-01-300x44.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TRANSPOSE-FORMULA-01-768x112.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 978px) 100vw, 978px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While it is selected, we need to <strong>enter the <i>TRANSPOSE\u00a0<\/i>function<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">=TRANSPOSE(<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"TRANSPOSE Formula in Excel\"  class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10158\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TRANSPOSE-FORMULA-02.jpg\" alt=\"TRANSPOSE Formula in Excel\" width=\"992\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TRANSPOSE-FORMULA-02.jpg 992w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TRANSPOSE-FORMULA-02-300x41.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TRANSPOSE-FORMULA-02-768x105.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>STEP 2:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0The <b>TRANSPOSE\u00a0<\/b>arguments:<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_57_1 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"scroll-to-download\">Free Practice Workbook<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/transpose-formula-in-excel\/#array\" title=\"array\">array<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"array\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>array<\/strong><\/em><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>What is the range of cells that contains the data?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Select the cells containing the data that you want to flip the orientation:<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">=TRANSPOSE(<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">A9:B13)<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"TRANSPOSE Formula in Excel\"  class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10159\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TRANSPOSE-FORMULA-03.jpg\" alt=\"TRANSPOSE Formula in Excel\" width=\"978\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TRANSPOSE-FORMULA-03.jpg 978w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TRANSPOSE-FORMULA-03-300x44.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TRANSPOSE-FORMULA-03-768x112.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 978px) 100vw, 978px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>STEP 3:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Once you finish typing the formula, ensure you press\u00a0<strong>CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER\u00a0<\/strong>for this to be treated as an\u00a0<strong>array formula:\u00a0<\/strong><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"TRANSPOSE Formula in Excel\"  class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TRANSPOSE-FORMULA-04.jpg\" alt=\"TRANSPOSE Formula in Excel\" width=\"1000\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TRANSPOSE-FORMULA-04.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TRANSPOSE-FORMULA-04-300x43.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TRANSPOSE-FORMULA-04-768x109.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your table now has a horizontal orientation with just the <strong>TRANSPOSE Formula<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>How to Use the Transpose Formula in Excel<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ebooks.myexcelonline.com\/products\/101-most-popular-excel-formulas-e-book\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10741\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/MyExcelOnline.com-Formulas-E-Book.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/MyExcelOnline.com-Formulas-E-Book.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/MyExcelOnline.com-Formulas-E-Book-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/MyExcelOnline.com-Formulas-E-Book-1024x536.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/MyExcelOnline.com-Formulas-E-Book-768x402.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; What does it do? Converts a vertical range of cells to horizontal, or vice versa Formula breakdown: =TRANSPOSE(array) What it means: =TRANSPOSE(the horizontal or vertical range of cells that you want to flip the orientation) Let us say you have a horizontal table, and you want to flip it to become a vertical table, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cos_headline_score":0,"cos_seo_score":0,"cos_headline_text":"","cos_headline_has_been_analyzed":false,"cos_last_analyzed_headline":[],"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[498,3,11],"tags":[142,79,130],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}