Array formulas in Excel – a powerful tool If it is possible to apply array formulas in Excel to your data, then it’s always quicker to perform your calculations and offers a more elegant solution. How to implement this feature:
- Normally you would multiply each of the number of shares with the the price of the shares
- You would do the same multiplication withe rest of the data or use ‘autofill’
- Then you would ‘sum’ the individual results to get a total
- With ‘array’ formulas you can achieve this in one step as demonstrated in the Excel training video
- Another example of use of arrays in Excel
Further reading:
Introducing array formulas in Excel