Turns out half my old formulas were just dynamic arrays in disguise, written the long way.

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 ...

lookup_value is the value we want Excel to search for. lookup_array is where we want Excel to search for the lookup value. return_array is where the data exists that we want Excel to return.

In addition to the new SORT function, you may also find the new FILTER and UNIQUE array functions useful. For example, the worksheet on the next page contains a detailed listing of invoices in columns ...

So, I am writing an application in Excel2000 and VBA. I am using Autofilter to go through a bunch of raw data in a worksheet, filter it out, and copy it to a new sheet. For example, I have a sheet ...

What if you could solve intricate Excel problems with a single, elegant formula? Imagine replacing a web of complex, error-prone calculations with one streamlined function that handles it all. Enter ...

Microsoft is making some improvements to how formulas work in Excel, with a new feature called Dynamic Arrays that allows formulas to output values to more than one cell at a time. Microsoft has ...

is a senior correspondent 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.