SORT is one of several new functions that take advantage of Excel’s new Dynamic Arrays functionality, which was recently released as a beta feature to some Office Insiders (see the February 2019 Tech ...

If you regularly work with data sets in Excel, you know how important it is to be able to quickly find the information you need.

There are lots of ways to return the top or bottom n records from a data set in Microsoft Excel, but the new dynamic array functions make doing so easier than ever.

Excel has SumIf and CountIf, but no AverageIf. However, with a little array magic, you can get Excel to average values, conditionally. Simply insert the following form as an array: =AVERAGE(IF ...

In Microsoft Excel, MMULT is a Math and Trigonometry function that includes two arguments, array 1 and array 2. When calculating the row count of array 1 must equal the row count of array 2.

As you can see in the screenshot below, the same UNIQUE formula is entered in cell E2, including defining the same array (B2:B101). All that was to be done additionally was to add parentheses around ...