Google Spreadsheet Sort Specific Rows (dynamically)

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In my spreadsheet I get data from several APIs (which is being updated automatically and frequently)

These are my 2 questions:

a) My API gets data like this:

  • A
  • B
  • A
  • B
  • A
  • B

I want to copy the data into other columns, so I did on different columns

  • =E1
  • =E2
  • =E3
  • =E4

To not manually type it I can select it and drag it down.

But what if my data is:

  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • A
  • B
  • C

I can't select and drag down the Formula in a 3rd / 4th step for example.

I don't want to manually do it, because its too much.

Here I would need to type:

  • =E1
  • =E4
  • =E7

b) Let's say my data is:

Author | Price | Title | Publishing Year 
Author | Price | Title | Publishing Year 
Author | Price | Title | Publishing Year 

How can I (dynamically, because this data set is being updated) create a new set of columns for this to filer it by AUTHOR for example.

  • Column A,B,C,D should be AUTHOR 1 and rest
  • Column E,F,G,H should be AUTHOR 2 and rest
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