One of the most powerful features of Excel is the array—a formula designed to act simultaneously on sets of two or more values in order to calculate other values. Yet, because arrays appear to be ...

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An curved arrow pointing right. {} These brackets mean something magical is happening inside your Excel formula. An "Array" function allows you to perform mathematical operations on many cells instead ...

Q. I get a detailed revenue transaction export from the client, and then I get it again, revised, usually after I’ve already filtered, sorted, and documented my selections. I’m tired of reapplying ...

The syntax for counting the number of unique values from a list of a column using the array formula is as follows: =SUM(IF(COUNTIF(<first cell from which you count the number of unique values>:<last ...

Excel has a wide range of useful built-in functions, but that doesn't mean you should use them indiscriminately. One of the things you can do when Excel is lagging is examine certain formulas to ...

Microsoft Excel spreadsheets frequently use similar formulas along columns. For example, you might need to keep a running total or tabulate a list of product inventories. Repetitively typing each ...