Excel create table with all combinations

Let's assume I have 3 columns with labels

1. A B C D
2. a b c d e
3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Is there a quick and easy way to create an empty table with all permutations? i.e.

• A - a - 1
• A - a - 2
• ....
• D - e - 10

Solution 1:

Running this short macro:

Sub marine()
    Dim i As Long, j As Long, k As Long, N As Long

    N = 1
    For i = 1 To 4
        For j = 1 To 5
            For k = 1 To 10
                Cells(N, 4) = Cells(i, 1) & "-" & Cells(j, 2) & "-" & Cells(k, 3)
                N = N + 1
            Next k
        Next j
    Next i
End Sub

will produce a column of the desired 200 combinations:

Solution 2:

You can do this with a formula:

=IFERROR(INDEX($A$1:$A$4,INT((ROW(1:1)-1)/((COUNTA(B:B)*(COUNTA(C:C)))))+1)&" - "&INDEX(B:B,MOD(INT((ROW(1:1)-1)/COUNTA(C:C)),COUNTA(B:B))+1)&" - "&INDEX(C:C,MOD((ROW(1:1)-1),COUNTA(C:C))+1),"")