I'm attempting to create an ARRAYFORMULA that can extract the first non-blank COLUMN value on each row in a range.
My latest attempt is this:
=TRANSPOSE(QUERY(TRANSPOSE( A2:D6),"select * where Col1 <>'' limit 1",9^99))
Placed in F2, this generates all the output of the range F2:F6 in the table below.
However it's quite evident that all it does it to concatenate all the cells in each column using a space as a delimiter, so the output does not resemble my expected outcome, shown in H2:H6 :-(
I've come up with several other formulas, but the all exhibit the same problem. :-(
┌───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───┬────────────────┬───┬──────────┐ │ │ A │ B │ C │ D │ E │ F │ G │ H │ ├───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───┼────────────────┼───┼──────────┤ │ 1 │ Input │ Input │ Input │ Input │ │ Formula/Output │ │ Expected │ ├───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───┼────────────────┼───┼──────────┤ │ 2 │ Test0 │ │ Test1 │ │ │Test0 Test1 │ │ Test0 │ ├───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───┼────────────────┼───┼──────────┤ │ 3 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───┼────────────────┼───┼──────────┤ │ 4 │ │ │ │ Test3 │ │ Test3 │ │ Test3 │ ├───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───┼────────────────┼───┼──────────┤ │ 5 │ │ 5 │ │ │ │ 5 │ │ 5 │ ├───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───┼────────────────┼───┼──────────┤ │ 6 │ │ │54:74=2│ │ │ 54:74=2 │ │ 54:74=2 │ └───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───┴────────────────┴───┴──────────┘
So my question is, how can I make an arrayformula or query that I can place in F2 will only select the first non-blank value in each column in F2:D6, and output the result to F2:F6?