Formula to shift values from one column to another

Question

[shabbas12]

I have an excel data (Genes) like,

I need to move value in column A and B to Column C and D Empty cells Like,

Please suggest any formula.

[cpad0112]

1) sort by "Gene ID"

2) Select all the "ENSG" IDs in "Gene ID" column and symbols in "Gene Name" column

3) Click on "Insert"

4) Then select "shift cells right"

Answer 1

[PeterKW]

Not sure whether this is the kind of solution you are looking for, but, you can create two new columns with what you want as shown below.

=IF(ISBLANK(C2),A2,B2) and =IF(ISBLANK(C2),B2,C2)

Then you can auto-fill the new columns.