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CHOOSECOLS
Microsoft Excel continues to evolve, and one of the most impressive additions to the Excel formula family is the GROUPBY function. With it, we now have the power to create fully dynamic and flexible summary reports—all with a single formula. If you’ve relied on pivot tables or manual formulas for reporting, you’re going to love…
When working with tabular data in Excel, there are often times we need to extract specific rows or columns based on custom logic. This is where the CHOOSEROWS and CHOOSECOLS functions come into play. These recently introduced dynamic array functions are powerful alternatives to functions like TAKE and DROP, offering more flexibility by letting us…
Excel’s PIVOTBY function allows you to create dynamic summary reports that look very much like PivotTables. However, they are totally dynamic … no need to click Refresh. They are created with a single formula, but do not have the rich features and capabilities of PivotTables. Depending on your workbook, the PIVOTBY function may be a…
In this tutorial, we will learn how to use the GROUPBY function to create dynamic pivot-style reports with a single formula. Let’s back up a sec. For years, we’ve turned to PivotTables to build summary reports. Now we have another option: the GROUPBY function. While it doesn’t create a true PivotTable, it does create a…
If you’ve used the VLOOKUP function before, you know that the lookup column is expected to be in the leftmost column within the range. Meaning, it’s going to look for a value in the leftmost column within the range and once it finds its match, it will shoot to the right to return the related…
Combining data from multiple tables in Excel has historically been very manual … especially when the tables have different column orders. In this blog post, we’ll tackle this challenge by getting Excel to combine the tables with a formula that uses the VSTACK and CHOOSECOLS functions. Video Step by step Let’s use a basic example.…