Spreadsheet Models for Managers

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f you use Excel to model businesses, business processes, or business transactions, this course will change your life. You'll learn how to create tools for yourself that will amaze even you. Unrestricted use of this material is available in two ways.

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Spreadsheet Models for Managers

Arrays in Excel

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An array is a rectangular range of cells or values
Analysis and Synthesis best done with array manipulation
It's possible to do this cell-by-cell, but that approach is:
- Cumbersome
- Error-prone
- Hard to follow and maintain
Better: use arrays
- An array formula returns an array that is spread over the cells in which you enter it
- One array=>One formula
- Faster computations
- Sometimes you have to transpose the arrays to get the result you need
How to enter an array formula
- Windows: Ctrl+Shift+Enter
- Mac: Command+Enter or Ctrl+Shift+Enter

Readings: Array Arithmetic

Before we actually look at an example of analysis and synthesis, let's take a brief excursion into array manipulation. Doing things in this order has some advantages — when we get to the analysis/synthesis example, you'll have all the tools you need to understand how we worked it. And it has a disadvantage. We're asking you to learn about array manipulation without really understanding the need for it. That situation makes some people impatient, but if you can possibly hang in there, you'll be rewarded.

All formulas in cells in Excel "return" values when they compute themselves. The value they return is then displayed as the value of the cell. For example, the formula =A1+B1 "returns" the sum of A1 and B1. Array formulas are a little different. They return an array of values, and distribute that array across the range of cells that hold the array formula.

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