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Category Archives: Array Functions

Excel FILTER Function – The Function that does Everything

Last year, Microsoft announced the introduction of a new group of functions in Excel, known as dynamic array functions. One of these – the FILTER function – is ...

Sum up the diagonal of your data anywhere on a Sheet

The title of this post is actually a question I got on one of the last trainings I gave in 2015. It struck me as a great little sample of using array formulas, and ...

Last word in a string with an Array formula

As promised in the Pragmatism vs. Purity in Excel article from last week, this week’s article will explain the following array formula ...

Pragmatism vs. purity in Excel

One of the greatest things about Excel is that with its endless array of tools and commands it almost always offers multiple ways of achieving a certain goal. ...

Convert Text to Numbers in Excel

A task that comes about every so often in Excel and can be quite tricky. Now our ultimate goal is to get a number out of something like (text 1 text) or even ...

Sum of ten largest values

This will be a short lesson on three great and sadly unknown functions and how to use them as an array function. The eighth LARGEst value One of my favorite ...