From rows to columns…

The TRANSPOSE function has been around for a very long time and allows you, when working with formulas containing arrays, to transpose them from row to column or vice versa. A similar effect can be obtained using the Paste Special option. Since recently, Excel offered to users through Microsoft 365 subscription, has functions TOROW and TOCOL with which we can easily convert rows into columns and columns into rows…

Customizing source table

Before you decide to create a pivot table, ask yourself: do you really need it? This report groups and aggregates data (summation, averaging, counting, etc.) and you may have already done so in the source table; maybe it is, in itself, a report? If you do decide to take this step, you will need to adjust it so that the pivot table can process the data, because it requires that the records be in rows.

Word frequency

How often do repeat certain words in the given text? Which one of them is most often repeated? The answer to this question can be obtained using a few simple techniques, which will be more talk in the text that follows. To begin with, a news post is taken from the link http://www.iib.rs/srl/bizit2018-srl/and we will analyse it to measure the frequency of words occurrence. The selected text should be copied to cell A1 of the new worksheet.

Array formulas

Excel supports a special type of formulas that allows us to use arrays of variables as arguments rather than variables (references, ranges, names), where we can perform certain mathematical operations over all of them. Moreover, there is a situation where the arrays considerably shorten the way to the solution or are even necessary to get to it. In the following text, through a few examples, it will be shown how to use array formulas.