The Hermit Hermit's Free Library  Brain Teasers

One in a series of exercises that demonstrate how to accomplish real-world computing tasks using time- and work-saving techniques.

Brain Teaser #3: Transpose Table Rows and Columns

Task

Your boss is presenting her departmental budget in ten minutes. She has a chart showing how expenses have increased during the past year but she feels the chart would be more effective if the rows and columns were transposed.

She asks you to do this as quickly as possible so she can update her slideshow.

Time

Not including formatting, 45 seconds.

Data

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