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 ...

Imagine you’re tasked with analyzing two datasets—one containing a list of products and another with customer segments. How do you uncover every possible pairing to identify untapped opportunities?

If you’re still cleaning and organizing data manually, you’re missing out on some of Excel’s most powerful built-in automation tools. Features like Power Query, PivotTables, Office Scripts, and ...

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 ...

If you get the You can’t change part of an array error in Microsoft Excel, this post will help you fix the error. An array is essentially a collection of items ...

Use the RANDARRAY() dynamic array function to return random names or other text in Microsoft Excel. The recent article How to generate random letters in Excel shows you how to generate random letters.

Often known as the universal data munging tool, Excel is trying out new options for processing messy text as well as entering it more quickly and accurately in the first place. One of the reasons ...

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.