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Category Archives: Arrays
Using conditional formatting with array formulas
A recent Quora question asked “How do I highlight the number closest to an initial number in a row in Excel?“. The answer by Bill Jelen provides a good example of using conditional formatting with an array formula: In my … Continue reading
Posted in Arrays, Excel
Tagged Array Formula, conditional formatting, Excel, Office Insider
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Working with dynamic arrays in Excel
Many of the VBA functions available here return results as arrays, which must be entered by selecting the desired output range, then pressing Ctrl-Shift-Enter (CSE). This can be inconvenient (or at least untidy) when the size of the output array varies. … Continue reading
Posted in Arrays, Excel, UDFs, VBA
Tagged Charles Williams, dynamic arrays, Excel, Fast Excel, VBA, Wndows Insider
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Transferring large arrays with Pyxll
Pyxll is a commercial Excel add-in linking Excel and Python. The latest version offers greatly improved performance in transferring data between Excel and Python as Numpy arrays, amongst many other new features and improvements. To check what this means in practice, … Continue reading
Posted in Arrays, Excel, Frame Analysis, Link to Python, PyXLL, UDFs, VBA
Tagged data transfer time, Excel, large arrays, Python, PyXLL, UDFs, VBA
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More updates to ArcSpline and IP2
I have uploaded version 2.18 of the IP2 spreadsheet to: IP2.zip The new version includes updates to the IP, IP_4, and ArcSpline functions, as described below. The download is free and includes full open-source code. The IP and IP_4 functions find … Continue reading
Posted in Arrays, Coordinate Geometry, Excel, Maths, Newton, UDFs, VBA
Tagged arcspline, Array function entry, Automatic re-size array functions, Excel, IP2.xlsb, Line intersections, UDFs, VBA
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More iterative solvers
Following the recent post on using Brent’s Method solvers on an array (Iterative solvers and arrays), here is another example with an engineering related problem. The example is included in the xlScipy3 spreadsheet, which can be downloaded from: xlScipy3.zip The depth … Continue reading
Posted in Arrays, Beam Bending, Concrete, Excel, Link to Python, Maths, Newton, NumPy and SciPy, UDFs, VBA, xlwings
Tagged Brents method, depth of neutral axis, Excel, Python, Reinforced Concrete, SciPy, UDFs, VBA, xlwings
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Iterative solvers and arrays
A recent thread at Eng-Tips was looking for a solution to the problem described below: The solutions to this problem described below can be downloaded from: ItSolve.zip and xlScipy3.zip The ItSolve.xlsb spreadsheet contains a user defined function (UDF) to solve iterative … Continue reading
Posted in Arrays, Charts, Excel, Link to Python, Maths, Newton, NumPy and SciPy, UDFs, VBA, xlwings
Tagged Brents method, Excel, Python, SciPy, UDFs, VBA, xlwings, xlwSciPy3
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Using VBA Evaluate as an Array Function
I recently discovered from a thread at Chandoo’s Excel Forum that the VBA Evaluate function can be used as an array function. As a simple example: Range(“A11:A16”).Value = Evaluate(“= B11:B16 + C11:C16”) will add the values in columns B and C, … Continue reading
Posted in Arrays, Coordinate Geometry, Excel, Maths, UDFs, VBA
Tagged array functions, Evaluate, Excel, UDFs, VBA
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