Hi curlydog,
Catching up on the conversation:
I have attached the rules for the 8 categories of adjective endings.
When sorting to group the same colours together, you are actually grouping by category. If you have numbered these eight categories in a 'standard' order, it may make more sense to sort the entries by Type than by colour. That way the colour groups will be listed in the same order as on the table on which you listed the types and their assigned colours.
[I]n my spreadsheet Sheet 1 (has) a table of Gk to Eng; Sheet 2's table is Eng to Gk; Sheet 3's is A to Ω, Sheet 4's is A to Z.
Taking the table on Sheet 1 as your Main table, the only change needed in the table on Sheet 2 is to exchange the positions of the columns of Greek and English words. As no mention is made of changing the order of these two tables, I would assume a 'logical' order would be by type, which would also group them by colour.
Transferring the content of the table can be done with a simple cell reference to the same cell in the source table (eg. in A1 of the Eng-Grk table, press = to open the formula editor, then type A1
Clck the green checkmark to confirm the formula and close the editor.
Fill the formula right to the last column (where you should, when you release the mouse button, see the content of the last cell in row 1 of the Main table.
Go back to the column containing the English words. Double click the cell to open the formula Editor, Take note of the Column letter in the cell reference, then replace that reference with the column letter of the column of the Main table containing the Greek words.
Make the opposite change in the first cell in the column containing the Greek words, changing the column reference to the column of the main table containing the English words.
Select all of row 1, then fill the formula down to the last row of the table. Add rows if needed to get to the content of the last row of the Main table.
But I haven't yet found a way to automate the alphabetising to be honest. That's my next challenge.
As three of the tables are filled by copying rows of data from the table on Sheet 1, sorting the final two could prove an interesting exercise. Tables filled from other tables by formulas are inherently resistant to post transfer sorting; if the tables are sorted on values that is dependent on the position of that value on the source table, sorting the receiving table will immediately trigger a recalculation, which will return the original values in the original position in the 'resorted' table.
For this stage, my simplest suggestion is to:
- Select all cells of the Greek to English table on Sheet 1. Copy,
- Go to Sheet 3, and select (one click) cell A1 of the Table that i to hold the Α-Ω sort.
- Go to the Edit menu and choose Paste Formula results
- Sort the table on the Greek column.
Repeat with the English to Greek table on Sheet 2
- Select all cells on the source table. Copy.
- Select cell A1 of the table on Sheet 4
- Edit > Paste Formula Results
- Sort the table on the English column.
ALL content editing will be done on the Main table, on Sheet 1.
You will need to add rows to the table on Sheet 2 to match the number of rows in the Main table.
The tables on Sheets 3 and 4 will automatically expand to include as many rows of data (and headings) as are present in the table that the data has been pasted from,
Finally I want to use the colours to pull the words into their correct groups, in another table in another Sheet.
Since each colour matches a specific Type number, grouping by colour is equivalent to grouping by Type number. do this grouping by sorting on type number.
Regards,
Barry
