excel - Combine Multiple Tables Rows Into Master Table

Question

Happy Monday Everyone!

Have a question and hope you can help. I have a budget spreadsheet that has a budget tab. On this tab is about 8 tables broken down into different categories. Every table in the tab has the exact same columns. Is there a non-vbscript/marco way to create a master table that combines all of the tables into a single table in a different tab. This seems like it would be a no brainer but I have tried everything I can think of and find online and there doesn't seem to be a decent solution without an addon called power query.

Answer 1

I know you asked for a non VBA way, but for completeness I'm adding another answer that also has a VBA solution, because it's dead simple, it's blazingly fast, and it's generic. All you need to do is cut and paste this code into a standard code module, add a button and assign it to trigger the calling routine, give your source tables a name includes the full name of the summary table, and you're good to go.

Sub CombineTables(loDest As ListObject, Optional lcSource As ListColumn)

Dim ws              As Worksheet
Dim lo              As ListObject
Dim lc              As ListColumn
Dim rDest           As Range
Dim lDestRows       As Long
Dim lSourceRows     As Long

Application.ScreenUpdating = False

If lcSource Is Nothing Then Set lcSource = loDest.ListColumns(1)
If loDest.ListRows.Count > 0 Then loDest.DataBodyRange.Delete

For Each ws In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets
    For Each lo In ws.ListObjects
        If lo <> loDest Then
            With lo
                If InStr(.Name, loDest.Name & "_") > 0 Then
                    On Error Resume Next
                    lDestRows = loDest.ListRows.Count
                    On Error GoTo 0
                    lSourceRows = .ListRows.Count
                    If lSourceRows > 0 Then

                        'Work out where we want to paste the data to
                        Set rDest = loDest.HeaderRowRange.Offset(1 + lDestRows).Resize(lSourceRows)

                        'Resize the destination table
                        loDest.Resize loDest.Range.Resize(1 + lSourceRows + lDestRows)       

                        For Each lc In .ListColumns
                         Intersect(loDest.ListColumns(lc.Name).Range.EntireColumn, rDest).Value2 = lc.DataBodyRange.Value
                        Next lc
                        Set lc = Nothing
                        On Error Resume Next
                        Set lc = .ListColumns(lcSource.Name)
                        On Error GoTo 0
                        If lc Is Nothing Then Intersect(lcSource.Range, rDest.EntireRow).Value2 = ws.Name
                    End If
                End If
            End With
        End If
    Next lo
Next ws

Application.ScreenUpdating = True

End Sub

And here's the caller:

Sub CombineTables_Caller()
CombineTables [SomeName].ListObject, [SomeName].ListObject.ListColumns("Source")
End Sub

When I push that button, the code will look throughout the workbook for any tables who's names contain the name of the Destination table (in this case the Table called "SomeName"), and then bring their data through. So if you are adding new tabes, then as long as you prefix their Table names with the name of the destination table, they will be included. Any other tables (such as the one called 'DifferentName' will be ignored.

...and here's the result: