Dear Asikul Himel (How to Repeat Rows for a Specified Number of Times in Excel)
Dear Asikul Himel,
Thank you for being the awesome human being that you are, and specifically thank you for posting the VBA code (plus other solutions) to the exact need that I had - to repeat rows for a specified number of times in Excel.
Although I have to complain a little bit about the website that this incredibly useful information is housed on. I don’t know much about www.exceldemy.com - I don’t think I’ve used a resource on here before - but at least the page with your solution on it slowed my computer down for the time I was on it and I’m not sure it ever actually finished loading. Certainly not all of the images you shared loaded for me.
Luckily though your VBA code plus 1 loaded image was enough to be able to try (and succeed) on my own, and it saved me…shit, I don’t even know how much time it saved me. Certainly it saved me a massive amount of energy searching for and implementing a solution, and it also tickled me! I’m no VBA coder myself, but just looking at your code and then actually using the function in Excel was exciting. I almost can’t believe it works, but it really does.
Use Case: I’m creating a bunch of records in my CRM to represent classes and class sessions. In the end I was creating over 600 records. A small portion of these were representing weeks of a program (ie. Program Week 1, Program Week 2, Program Week 3, etc). A much larger portion of these were representing each day of those weeks, so 5 days per week of a program with about 35 weeks, plus actually 2 different cohorts in the program needing their own records….it would have been A LOT by hand.
Solution: With a little bit of copying and pasting and running the VBA code as a Macro a few times, I was able to come up with rows in my spreadsheet that can be uploaded into my CRM. I had to repeat the process a number of times because it wasn’t just one thing I needed to repeat, it was several. That required some thinking on my part about the process I would use to get my data right, with your excellent tool being a major major part of that process.
The How: I copied and pasted your code into Excel and then voila! It was done! OK no, it wasn’t as simple as that. But it isn’t so easy to explain in text, so instead, please enjoy this video explanation:
Why This Is Important: Because I am not a VBA coder. And if you aren’t either, then don’t worry, you don’t have to learn to code. But these solutions are OUT THERE, and they can save you time and money, right along with building your skills and experience and confidence to find and use tech in your work and to get things done faster. You don’t have to know how to code - but you DO need to know that it is possible to add in other people’s code into Excel and use it. That is huge. Knowing the code isn’t always necessary. But knowing that you can do it is critical. CRITICAL. I think we are far enough along into the super-charged speed raceway that is the data & tech age to be raising the bar for our “baseline” knowledge. It used to be OK to just know that Excel could do formulas and PivotTables and all sorts of cool things. But at this point, having an understanding of how to use information that people have generously, oh so generously, shared online is something that everyone using Excel should know.
Thank you Asikul Himel for your generosity in sharing this tool online. I hope that my contribution can be to support folx working in nonprofits and mission-driven organizations to know that tools like yours exist, and that they are definitely capable of taking advantage of these wonderful gifts (even if they don’t know how to code).
Peace,
Emily
