How to split a spreadsheet into multiple new spreadsheets each containing a subset of the original data?

Question

My excel spreadsheet contains

Name   Grade   Status
Paul   3       M
Paul   3       P
Paul   4       P
Steve  5       O
Steve  5       O
Nick   6       O
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Answer 1

Assuming that you have names in cells A1:A4 in Data worksheet, the formula for Paul worksheet will be:

=IFERROR(OFFSET(INDEX(Data!$A$1:$A$4,SMALL(IF(Data!$A$1:$A$4="Paul",ROW(Data!$A$1:$A$4),""),ROW(1:1))),0,COLUMN(A:A)-1),"")

Mind you, this is an array formula, which means that you have to enter it with the combination: Ctrl+Shift+Enter.

Now you have to just fill down and to the right to as many cells as you want.