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BrianGGG
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Jan 30, 2019
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Dynamic Array formula not backward compatible

Hello.  I have the Excel Insider edition and have used the new Dynamic Array formulas as follows:   =SORT(FILTER(CHOOSE({1,2,3},t_Main[Rank],t_Main[Field 2],t_Main[Total]),t_Main[Rank]<(J3+1)),1) ...
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    PeterBartholomew1
    Feb 10, 2019

     

    Unless I am getting myself confused, it is backward compatibility that is enabled by the SINGLE that inserts implicit intersection into the process, as was always the case for the traditional Excel calculation.  Forward compatibility in which old versions are expected to emulate dynamic arrays will be more of an issue.

     

    Mind you, I seem to be the only person on the planet who consistently used named formulae to bypass the Excel's implicit intersection trick and allow me to perform many array calculations without CSE.  They work equally well as traditional or new dynamic arrays.

     

     

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BrianGGG
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Feb 08, 2019

Yes, I guess it makes sense that previous versions would not have access to the new functionality.

 

This is just, for lack of a better term, a huge bummer.  What this means is that I (with my Insider Edition) can not pass on any spreadsheets with the new formulas to my colleagues (who have regular 365).

 

Very limiting until 365 gets the new array functions...

 

 

 

BrianGGG

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Prologys
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Dec 27, 2019
I have the same issue but I think there is a solution to this. I just did a small test by using Office 365 Excel Online version and that worked. The office version I used is from my customer and that even translated the Unique formula into a German one. I tried to also use textjoin and that also got translated as a formula.

Try it.

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Jaap

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