Merging data from different Spreadsheets into a Master Spreadsheet

Question:

Hi,

I have about 15 spreadsheets that I need to take certain bits of information from and create a master sheet, I have an example spreadsheet here: 

What I am trying to do is take only the rows with the initials LD, AD and JL in the 'Who' column. I need to do this for about 15 different spreadsheets.

Any help would be great :)

Solution:

I assume, you must be having same number of columns in all spreadsheets that you want to merge and filter data from.

Here in this example, I am considering just three spreadsheets:

Spreadsheet 1:

Spreadsheet 2:

Spreadsheet 3:

Now, put the following formula in your master spreadsheet which will fetch records from all the spreadsheets:

=query(VMerge(ImportRange("0AmMTqpzD9YRndHdhaU90Y2tHSmRCaUExZzVuSXdIcGc";"Work list!A4:M");ImportRange("0AmMTqpzD9YRndEtXcTVGd1NYdlBZLUhIQUtsUFdQcHc";"Work list!A4:M");ImportRange("0AmMTqpzD9YRndDZ0MWZ6R1BXd1c0MXRDSm1xajRmRUE";"Work list!A4:M"));"select * where Col10 = 'AD' or Col10 = 'LD' or Col10 = 'JL'";0)

Note: The above formula contains spreadsheet keys in ImportRange formula, if you are not familiar with ImportRange then have a look at the following link:

http://igoogledrive.blogspot.in/2012/09/google-spreadsheet-importrange.html

Here is screenshot of the Master Spreadsheet:

You can notice master spreadsheet has all the records from three spreadsheets which are having "JL" and "AD" and "LD" in Column J.

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