How to Report Top and Bottom Results Using Dynamic Arrays in Excel
In How to Use Excel’s LET Function, I showed several examples of a powerful function that Microsoft added to Excel 365 in the summer...
How to Use Excel’s LET Function
In the summer of 2020, Microsoft introduced the LET function for Excel 365—one of the most-significant new worksheet functions that Microsoft has introduced in...
How to Stack and Shelve Dynamic Arrays
While using Excel 365 recently, I needed to create one dynamic array that would consist of two arrays, with one stacked on top of...
How to Define General Ledger Account Groups in Excel
In Part 1 of this series, How to Report GL Account Groups in Excel, we explored the strategy for creating financial reports that use...
XLOOKUP vs VLOOKUP vs INDEX-MATCH vs SUMIFS
SUMIFS? Really?
Why is SUMIFS included among those lookup methods? I'll explain in a few minutes.
But first, let's look at the lookup methods shown in...
How to Report GL Account Groups in Excel
Believe it or not, this income statement is quite sophisticated. It's not nearly as simple-minded as it looks.
In fact, this income statement illustrates a...
How to Use Array Formulas to Report Groups of Accounts
Often, in accounting, marketing, and other departments, we'd like to report and analyze groups of items rather than one item at a time.
In Part...
Show Top and Bottom Results in a Chart-Table
The workbook that supports the following figure does a lot of work!
First, it uses Power Query to download the weekly unemployment claims and the...
US National Financial Conditions Using Excel Panel Charts
I’ll explain the meaning of this chart figure shortly. But first, let’s look at it from an Excel perspective.
(Note: I’ve begun to use economic...
What’s a ‘Deprecated’ Function in Excel?
Wikipedia tells us that deprecation is a status applied to a computer software feature, characteristic, or practice indicating it should be avoided, typically because of being superseded.
Each new generation of...