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Dynamic Arrays

Include New Items without a PivotTable

By Jeff Lenning | March 6, 2019 |

One reason we love PivotTables is that they automatically expand to include new items. For example, we have a PivotTable that summarizes transactions by account. Then next month, we paste new transactions into the data table and there is a new account. To get this new account included in our report, all we do is…

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Amortization Schedule with Spill Ranges

By Jeff Lenning | February 19, 2019 |

This is the second post in a series on dynamic array formulas and spill ranges. In this post, we’ll create a dynamic amortization schedule … and it is actually pretty fun! Before we had spill ranges, it was a hassle to update an amortization schedule when the number of periods changed. That is, you may…

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Create Dependent Drop-Downs with Spill Ranges

By Jeff Lenning | February 12, 2019 |

A while ago, I wrote about creating dependent (aka cascading, dynamic, or conditional) drop-downs using data validation. This is where you have a primary drop-down, and the choices in the related secondary drop-down depend on the selection made in the first drop-down. Well, this process became MUCH easier with the introduction of dynamic array functions…

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