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

Stop updating Excel manually. Discover how to use dynamic array formulas to create self-updating reports and dropdown lists ...

Excel can feel like a maze of endless rows, columns, and formulas, especially when you’re trying to create something as detailed as a loan repayment report. If you’ve ever found yourself overwhelmed ...

Q. How do I use the FILTER function in Excel, and how is this an improvement over the filter feature? A. The FILTER function was introduced five years ago as part of the Excel Dynamic Arrays rollout.

In Excel spreadsheets, complex formulas are difficult to enter without making mistakes. Microsoft Excel’s LAMBDA() function can make such errors easier to find. LAMBDA functions are new to Microsoft ...

Almost everyone who uses Excel has that one function they’ve been relying on since college because it works well enough that they can avoid learning something new. That’s why you’ll still find VLOOKUP ...

Advanced list solutions are easy thanks to Excel’s Table object. If you need a dynamic list, try one of these techniques. The article Five ways to take advantage of Excel list features showed five ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you often work with data that starts life as a text file or CSV, Microsoft Excel now has new built-in tools that simplify how ...

Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of functions like LEFT, RIGHT, MID, and FIND, leading to some confusing ...