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Excel Dynamic Arrays Straight to the Point 2nd Edition
Excel Dynamic Arrays Straight to the Point 2nd Edition
Excel Dynamic Arrays Straight to the Point 2nd Edition
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New for Office 365 customers, one single formula sitting in one single cell can return many results. Those extra results will spill into adjacent cells. This is a major change to the calculation engine in Excel. This book covers the new functions added for Dynamic Arrays: SORT, SORTBY, FILTER, UNIQUE, SEQUENCE and RANDARRAY. It shows how Dynamic Arrays make the new XLOOKUP even more powerful. Dynamic arrays make every Excel calculation function more powerful. Pass a SEQUENCE to another function and Excel will Lift the function to return many results. Learn how to use the new # and @ operators in your formulas. After fifteen months of preview, the Dynamic Arrays are reaching general availability. Learn how the FastExcel SpeedTools add-in offers much-needed improvements, such as TOTALS, SLICES, VSTACK and UNPIVOT. Join in lobbying the Excel team to incorporate these improvements.
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Release dateJan 14, 2020
ISBN9781615472659
Excel Dynamic Arrays Straight to the Point 2nd Edition

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    Excel Dynamic Arrays Straight to the Point 2nd Edition - Bill Jelen

    Straight to the Point

    The Straight to the Point e-books are designed to thoroughly cover one targeted aspect of Excel.

    First Edition: September 25, 2018

    Second Edition: December 30, 2019 New in this edition:

    Problems with incorrect application of SINGLE on page 9.

    SINGLE is replaced by Implicit Intersection Operator @. VBA updates

    More legacy array examples added in Chapter 9

    XLOOKUP examples added as Chapter 10

    Speed Tools from Charles Williams in Chapter 11

    EXCEL DYNAMIC ARRAYS

    Straight to the Point

    2nd Edition

    Bill Jelen

    Holy Macro! Books

    PO Box 541731, Merritt Island FL 32953

    Excel Dynamic Arrays Straight to the Point - 2nd Edition

    © 2020 by Tickling Keys, Inc.

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information or storage retrieval system without written permission from the publisher.

    All terms known in this book known to be trademarks have been appropriately capitalized. Trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are not affiliated with Holy Macro! Books

    Every effort has been made to make this book as complete and accurate as possible, but no warranty or fitness is implied. The information is provided on an as is basis. The authors and the publisher shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damages arising from the information contained in this book.

    First Edition Published: September 25, 2018

    Second Edition: January 1, 2020

    Author: Bill Jelen

    Copyeditor: Kitty Wilson

    Cover Design & Compositor: Suat M. Ozgur

    Cover Illustration: Shannon Mattiza, 6'4 Productions

    Indexer: Nellie Jay

    Interior Illustrator: Walter Moore

    Screen Reader Captions: Deb Govern

    Published by: Holy Macro! Books, PO Box 541731, Merritt Island, FL 32953

    Distributed by Independent Publishers Group, Chicago, IL

    ISBN 978-1-61547-265-9 PDF, ePub and Mobi

    Table of Contents

    About the Author

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction

    What Will the Headlines Say About Dynamic Array Formulas?

    This Book Is Not the Comprehensive Guide to Dynamic Arrays

    Dynamic Array Formulas and Their Offspring Are Office 365 Exclusive

    How This Book Is Organized

    Download the Sample Files

    1 - Getting Started

    Formulas Can Now Spill

    What Happens if A Formula can't spill?

    If Your Formula Points to a Table, the Array Will Expand

    What Is Really Happening Behind the Scenes?

    Using the New Array Reference Notation: E3#

    What About Implicit Intersection?

    2 - The SORT Function

    A Simple Sort with One Argument

    Sorting with a Single Argument

    A Sort Based on Two or More Columns of Results

    Sort by Column

    A Random Sort Using SORT and RANDARRAY

    What's Left for Ctrl+Shift+Enter?

    3 - The SORTBY Function

    A Sort by Something That Is Not in the Results

    Performing a Multi-Column Sort without Array Constants

    4 - The FILTER Function

    Using The FILTER Function With One Condition

    Using FILTER with Multiple Conditions

    5 - The UNIQUE Function

    Syntax of the UNIQUE Function

    Understanding Unique Versus Distinct

    6 - Combining Functions

    Nesting Array Functions: SORT and UNIQUE

    Nesting Array Functions: SORT, UNIQUE, and FILTER

    7 - The SEQUENCE Function

    Generating a Range of Sequential Numbers

    Using SEQUENCE Inside Another Function

    8 - The RANDARRAY Function

    Generating an Array of Random Numbers with RANDARRAY

    Using RANDARRAY for Modeling and Simulation

    9 - Why CSE Arrays Were So Hard: Implicit Intersection

    Why CSE Formulas Were So Hard

    A Quick Glossary

    Legacy Excel Used Arrays Far More Often Than We Realized

    Understanding Implicit Intersection

    Breaking Implicit Intersection

    Lifting When a Scalar Is Expected but an Array Is Provided

    Understanding Array Truncation

    Using a Wrapper Function in Legacy Excel

    Preventing Implicit Intersection with Ctrl+Shift+Enter

    From Lifting to Pairwise Lifting

    Broadcasting Makes All Arrays the Same Size

    A Simple Broadcasting Example

    How Do Lifting, Broadcasting, Array Truncation, and Implicit Intersection Affect Dynamic Arrays?

    Why Did Excel Add an Implicit Intersection Operator?

    Answers to the Questions at the Start of this Chapter

    10- XLOOKUP and Dynamic Arrays

    XLOOKUP is First New Function After Dynamic Arrays

    Returning 12 Columns of VLOOKUP

    Returning 12 Months with MATCH and Several INDEX

    Returning 12 Columns of XLOOKUP without Dynamic Arrays

    Returning 12 Months with one XLOOKUP

    Dynamic Arrays Bug: Copying the Formula

    A Two-Way Lookup with INDEX & MATCH

    A Two-Way Lookup with XLOOKUP

    11 - Other Functions That Are Now Dynamic Arrays

    Using TODAY and SEQUENCE for a Calendar

    NOW and SEQUENCE

    Generating Sequential Letters with CHAR, SEQUENCE, and TEXTJOIN

    Returning the N Largest Items Using LARGE

    Returning the N Smallest Items Horizontally

    Transposing with a Shorter Formula

    Showing Formulas for a Range with FORMULATEXT

    Creating a Crosstab Report with Three Formulas

    Displaying Numbers as Binary, Octal, or Hex by Using BASE

    Summing the Lengths of Many Cells

    Using a Formula to Convert Text to Columns

    Summing All VLOOKUPS

    Finding the Proper Case of All Names with One Formula

    Replacing a What-If Data Table with One Formula

    Applying Up/Flat/Down Icons by Using the SIGN Function

    Using the Spilled Range Operator to Point to an Array

    Using an Array

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