Use TOCOL and TOROW Functions in Excel

Microsoft Excel 365 comprises a wide range of new functions to improve users' productivity and efficiency in manipulating data. With big datasets, it takes a lot of time for users to manually transform a 2-D array into a single array. TOCOL and TOROW functions are new inbuilt functions introduced in Excel 365 that are used to rebuild a two-dimensional array into a one-dimensional array. These functions are opposite to WRAPROWS and WRAPCOLS functions. TOCOL streamlines the data values vertically whereas TOROW visualizes the cell's values only in a single row.

Implementation of TOCOL Function in Excel

Step 1

Open a new worksheet in Excel 365 and enter the sample data as shown below

Step 2

Write the formula "=TOCOL(Table1)" in the "A9" cell as illustrated below

Syntax of TOCOL Function

=TOCOL(arr, [ignore], [scan_col])

Three arguments are defined in the TOCOL function definition

• arr Users must specify a certain range for the table.

• ignore It is an optional argument. Its values range from 0 to 3. By default, 0 will be used. 1 means blanks that exist in the dataset will be avoided. 2 means errors will be avoided in the array. The number 3 indicates the blanks, as well as faults, will be avoided.

• scan_col It is also an optional argument. It identifies whether the scanning of data is column-wise or row-wise.

Step 3

Press the "Enter" tab and the result is displayed in one column as highlighted below image

Execution of TOROWS Function in Excel

Step 1

Consider the sample dataset as given below

Step 2

Write the formula "=TOROW(TABLE1)" in the A9 cell.

Syntax of TOROW Function

=TOROW(arr, [ignore], [scan_row])

The three arguments to be defined in the function definition

• arr Users intend to specify the range of the table.

• ignore It is an optional argument. By default, 0 values will be considered to retain all entries. To skip empty cell values, 1 number is to be specified. To avoid errors presented in the array, users need to specify 2 numbers in this argument. To avoid faults and empty values, the number 3 is to be defined.

• scan_row By default, the data values will be scanned row-wise. It is also an optional argument.

Step 3

Then press the "Enter" tab to display the result as illustrated below

Conclusion

In this article, by utilizing the TOCOL and TOROW functions, we can quickly pile the data values either horizontally (single row) or vertically (single column). Users can acquire a thorough knowledge of their data by organizing their data across many ranges in worksheets.