When I first discovered Excel's dynamic array functions, my entire approach to spreadsheet design shifted. They replaced my clunky, multistep workarounds with smart, self-expanding formulas that adapt ...

Microsoft is expanding Excel with lists and arrays that hold multiple independently usable values in a single cell.

Have you ever found yourself staring at a sea of blank cells in Excel, wondering how to fill them without hours of manual effort? For years, this has been a frustrating bottleneck for professionals ...

The introduction of dynamic arrays triggered the biggest change to how we work with Microsoft Excel formulas in years, if not decades. They allow a single formula to spill multiple results into ...

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?

One of the most powerful features of Excel is the array—a formula designed to act simultaneously on sets of two or more values in order to calculate other values. Yet, because arrays appear to be ...

Microsoft has announced lists and in-cell arrays for Excel's Beta channel. Here is how they differ from dynamic arrays, where ...

Microsoft Excel spreadsheets frequently use similar formulas along columns. For example, you might need to keep a running total or tabulate a list of product inventories. Repetitively typing each ...

Microsoft is changing a 40-year-old Excel rule by allowing a single cell to hold multiple values using new lists, arrays in cells, and nested arrays.

Select a cell and use Insert > List or press Ctrl+J to create a list.