Use dynamic arrays and tables for fast, scalable cascading drop-down lists in modern Excel.

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 ...

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 ...

Skip tables when you need spilled results, presentation-ready layouts, one-off modeling logic, or stable protected data-entry templates.

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 ...

Excel's VLOOKUP function searches cell arrays for data that you provide. The function often takes cell references as input, letting you easily apply the function to each cell in a range. Alternatively ...

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 ...