Excel 2010 Bible

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CHAPTER


Performing Magic


with Array Formulas


IN THIS CHAPTER


More examples of single-cell
array formulas

More examples of multicell
array formulas

Returning an array from a
custom VBA function

T


he preceding chapter provides 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 provide 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.


On the CD
The examples in this section are available on the companion CD-ROM. The file
is named single-cell array formulas.xlsx.


Summing a range that contains errors .....................................................................

You may have discovered that the SUM function doesn’t work if you attempt
to sum a range that contains one or more error values (such as #DIV/0! or

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