For decades, Excel worked on a simple principle: you enter a formula into one cell, and it returns a single result into that ...

Have you ever found yourself buried under a mountain of Excel spreadsheets, painstakingly updating formulas every time new data comes in? It’s a common struggle, one that can turn even the most ...

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 ...

Excel processes the range (A1:A10) by converting it into an array in memory. This array is what Excel works with to calculate the sum. The distinction is subtle but important: while the range is the ...

Have you ever struggled with Excel formulas, trying to calculate running totals only to be left with errors and frustration? Many of us have faced the challenge of managing datasets where each row’s ...

Microsoft has announced some improvements to the way formulas work in Microsoft Excel, introducing a new capability called Dynamic Arrays, which was first announced last year, but only available to a ...

How to use the FILTER() dynamic array function in Excel Your email has been sent Filtering is a huge part of many Microsoft Excel sheets, and fortunately, there are ...

Use an Excel array function to create an AverageIf function Your email has been sent Excel doesn't have a built-in AVERAGEIF() function, but you can still average values, conditionally. Excel has ...

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 ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft Excel used to only allow two types of data: text and numbers. After ...