Excel 2016 Bible

Chapter 18Performing Magic with Array Formulas

IN THIS CHAPTER

1. Looking at more examples of single-cell array formulas
2. Seeing more examples of multicell array formulas
3. Returning an array from a custom VBA function

The preceding chapter provided an introduction to arrays and array formulas and presented some basic examples to whet your appetite. This chapter continues the saga and provides many useful examples that further demonstrate the power of this feature.

I selected the examples in this chapter to offer a good assortment of the various uses for array formulas. You can use most of them as is. You will, of course, need to adjust the range names or references used. Also, you can modify many of the examples easily to work in a slightly different manner.

Working with Single-Cell Array Formulas

As I describe in the preceding chapter, you enter single-cell array formulas into a single cell (not into a range of cells). These array formulas work with arrays contained in a range or that exist in memory. This section provides some additional examples of such array formulas.

The examples in this section are available on this book's website at www.wiley.com/go/excel2016bible. The file is named single-cell array formulas.xlsx.

Summing a range that contains errors

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