Description
Book SynopsisUnderstand the power of dynamic arrays:a single formula can generate new and vastly more efficient spreadsheet possibilities. This bookintroduces spreadsheet users to dynamic array functions in Microsoft Excel 365, defines and details the distinctive ways in which they work, and shows how they can be applied to a wide swath of data-analytic tasks. While array formulas and functions have long held a place in the spreadsheet toolbox (although, for many of us, shunted to an obscure corner), the dynamic array engine offers a more user-friendly and intelligible set of means for manipulating spreadsheet data in the array mode. The single-formula, multi-cell capability of dynamic arrays has been extended to nearly all existing spreadsheet functions, offering a new, default way of working. As a result, many tasks can now be executed with dynamic arrays without having to resort to the new functions at all. After defining arrays and dynamic array formulas, this book helps you examine the dyn
Table of ContentsChapter 1: What’s An Array, Anyway?
Chapter 2: Array Formula Basics
Chapter 3: Dynamic Arrays -- Time for Some Heavy Lifting
Chapter 4: The SEQUENCE Function: Made to Order
Chapter 5: UNIQUE -- A Singular Function
Chapter 6: SORT and SORTBY: The ABCs (and the CBAs)
Chapter 7: The FILTER Function: Cutting the Data Down to Size
Chapter 8: RANDARRAY: Unpredictably Useful
Chapter 9: The Implicit Intersection Operator: The Function You'll Probably Never Use
Chapter 10: TEXTSPLIT, TEXTBEFORE, and TEXTAFTER: Putting Words in Their Places
Chapter 11: TOCOL and TOROW -- Straightening Out the Data
Chapter 12: WRAPCOLS and WRAPROWS: Giving Some Direction to the Data
Chapter 13: VSTACK and HSTACK: What They're About
Chapter 14: CHOOSECOLS and CHOOSEROWS: Less is More
Chapter 15: TAKE and DROP: Selecting and Rejecting the Data
Chapter 16: EXPAND: Bulking Up the Data
