Arrays in Google Sheets are collections of data, consisting of rows and columns. You can use arrays in formulas in the same way that you use regular A1-type ranges.
You construct arrays in Google Sheets with curly brackets: { }
They’re also known as ARRAY LITERALS.
Continue reading How To Create Arrays In Google Sheets (a.k.a. Array Literals)
In this post, you’ll learn how to create a Select All checkbox in Google Sheets, as shown in this image:
But before we look at that, did you know there’s already a quick way of selecting all checkboxes manually?
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This Formula Challenge originally appeared as Tip #194 of my weekly Google Sheets Tips newsletter, on 7 March 2022.
Congratulations to everyone who took part and well done to the 97 people who submitted a solution!
Special mention to Kieran D., Louise A., Martin H., Jelle G., Karl S., Earl N., Doug S., JP C., Alan B., and others for their ingenious solutions. I’ve shared the best below.
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Question: can you create a single formula to split a string into characters so that each character is in its own cell?
i.e. can you create a single formula in cell B1 that creates the output shown in this example:
Continue reading Formula Challenge #6: Split A String Into Characters And Recombine In Random Order
The RANDARRAY function in Google Sheets generates an array of random numbers between 0 and 1. The size of the array output is determined by the row and column arguments.
Here’s a RANDARRAY formula that generates an array of random numbers between 0 and 1, across 10 rows and 3 columns:
=RANDARRAY(10, 3)which gives an output:
🔗 The RANDARRAY template is available at the bottom of this article.
Continue reading How To Use The RANDARRAY Function In Google Sheets
This post shares my solution to a problem that I faced myself recently.
I needed the unique list of items from a column containing grouped words, separated by commas.
The data was in this format:
As you can see, it’s a list of my online courses, but many of the rows contain more than one item, separated by commas.
Ultimately, I want to transform the data into this format:
Continue reading How To Get A Unique List Of Items From A Column With Grouped Words