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    Group long indented bill of material

    I have a 21000 line bill of material that is indented by level.
    Column A has level number.

    I am trying to use the group command to allow easy browsing by expanding and collapsing. This is straight forward to do manually but is now a weekly update so I don't want to go through multilpe levels and thousands of rows.

    Can I somehow automate grouping rows through multiple levels

    Ex

    1 assy 1
    2 subassy 1
    3 part 1
    3 part 2
    2 subassy 2
    3 part 3
    2 part 4


    etc...

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    Have you tried Excel's AutoGroup?

    Quote Originally Posted by IonImplant
    I have a 21000 line bill of material that is indented by level.
    Column A has level number.

    I am trying to use the group command to allow easy browsing by expanding and collapsing. This is straight forward to do manually but is now a weekly update so I don't want to go through multilpe levels and thousands of rows.

    Can I somehow automate grouping rows through multiple levels

    Ex

    1 assy 1
    2 subassy 1
    3 part 1
    3 part 2
    2 subassy 2
    3 part 3
    2 part 4


    etc...

    Attached a view of desired output.
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    Autooutline only works when there are formulas

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    Ok you got me there. What if you inserted subtotals on the first column which inserts a subtotal on each change of the level column and inserts a COUNT of the number of records in the level?

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