Breaking News! We FINALLY get the New Excel functions we've been Wanting!

[@LeilaGharani]

Grab the file I used in the video from here 👉 pages.xelplus.com/new-functions-file (requires Office 365)

[@gvinodnair]

Leila, any clue how to separate individual characters in the words to different columns? Which technique/ formula can be used?

[@Hamza-yv6uy]

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[@MrSupernova111]

For those of us who have been using Excel for many years and were forced to learn long and complicated functions, including array formulas, these new functions are mindboggling! Thanks!

[@stenionet]

I am using Excel since 1997 and now I am using office 2007. I hope to upgrade soon.

[@bxyhxyh]

@@stenionet wow.

[@JJ_TheGreat]

@@stenionet I was using Excel 2007 for a long time. When Office 2021 came out, I finally upgraded. I am happy I have some of the new dynamic array formulas - but I will probably get jealous of these new formulas. At least I still have Power Query to be able to manipulate data - which is a lot better than using the old, long formulas - especially the old array formulas.

[@MrSupernova111]

@@stenionet . Bruh...! lol

[@mattschoular8844]

@@stenionet Please confirm Office 2007 will run on my Commodore 64.... Just kidding... For $129 USD, we share an MS365 subscription within our company. It is so worth the annual spend

[@gvinodnair]

These functions were just introduced yesterday by the great Excel development team to the Office insider community. Although I have seen a few other early bird MVPs introduce this function to the audience, I haven't seen anyone who explained it in an easy-to-understand way like you Leila. As always you have presented outstandingly well and concisely. Keep it up!

[@juanrsosa]

Totaly agree!

[@saberarami123]

what do I do to include them in my office 2021?

[@Hamza-yv6uy]

How can i found them ?

[@leechrec]

Daaaaaayyyyyuuuuuummmm bruh! Never in my life did I ever think I would be excited about Excel functions but these are dope!

[@LeilaGharani]

That they are 😁

[@electroone8281]

I totally concur with this. I took up learning VBA due to a lot of these types of formulas missing from Excel. Glad to see them continuing to add to the collection of Formulas in Excel.

[@ericm9305]

😂

[@jg9353]

You ain’t lying!

[@ivanvukovic5108]

This is how you know you grew up

[@kickthesky]

The CHOOSECOLS function is going to be awesome! This makes doing FILTER SORT tables even better because I won't have to create staging tables that only include the data I want to show in the filtered and sorted table. I can easily create a subset of the original data and display only what I want to display. Such a game changer!

[@ktalwandi]

You are amazing, Leila. Your course on VBA made me fall in love with programming and I nailed two interviews yesterday. Python was super easy to learn after VBA and now I can finally see some hope in my life. Thank you so much.

[@LeilaGharani]

That's great to hear!

[@Sekoleyte]

Where is her vba course? Are there any video in youtube. If you can share it, i will be thankful

[@LeilaGharani]

Right here: courses.xelplus.com/p/excel-vba-excel-macros

[@stuartkay1393]

Out of curiosity, how long did it take you to learn VBA? And then subsequently Python? It's something I've avoided up until recently but it would be good to put into perspective the time frame I'm looking at

[@ktalwandi]

@@stuartkay1393 depends on how much time you're willing to spend. I don't have a life and enjoy pace learning and I was able to complete VBA in less than three weeks. As for Python, I am still learning it and it has been about two months and I can say that I am at intermediate level. If you have never done any sort of programming, it might take you more time. Don't tell Leila but I've skipped the capstone projects in her VBA course lol. 😂

[@keijo456]

I've been waiting for these Textbefore and Textafter functions! No more tedious left, right and mid! Thank you Leila for letting us know!

[@mmohon]

Can we get a textbetween too?

[@jayholm9504]

Thank you for presenting these new time saving functions. As always, you explained them so well with real world examples of how we might apply them. You are a Master!! Thank you

[@LeilaGharani]

You're very welcome!

[@Shiffo]

My favorite is also Textsplit. Using Left, Right, MID, LEN usually was a bit tricky to write. This saves a lot of complexity.

[@jasonbb2010]

So the text split function cannot split single word like only first 3 digs?

[@Shiffo]

@@jasonbb2010 i think you will need to wrap LEFT(,3) into text split.

[@knotingo]

I’ve made a table a few days before and i even thought “this have to be done much easier” and now there it is! :-) Hope the update will be installed soon on my business devices. Thanks for this “breaking”! 👍

[@MrSupernova111]

You can already do much of these tasks without functions in Excel using the options in the Data tab and Power Query. Also, as Leila mentioned, some of these functions are just replacing older functions which can also get the job done but aren't always as flexible. Depending on your level of expertise most of these new functions are just a niche.

[@devonbradford9217]

A bit arrogant to call these niche. Most Excel users dont work in power query but their business needs would value these new formulas, without having to have expert excel/BI skills.

[@JesseHardesty]

I created a very complex dashboard in Excel to use for my job as a Training Supervisor, tracking training schedules, tracking documents, staff lists, a matrix and so on. This will eliminate so many of the confusing formulas I had to come up with and make it easier to add/remove people from certain parts when staff changes.

[@JimFikes]

I agree, at first glace, TEXTSPLIT will be the first new function that I can easily integrate into my regular routine. Thanks, Leila, I heard about these new functions but waited for your video. You always do a great job of adding simplicity and clarity to everything related to Excel.

[@hockeyfightjudge1]

Excel's recent(ish) developments have been AMAZING. Xlookups, dynamic arrays like unique/filter, upcoming searchable auto-completing lists. And now text split and choose cols, which will have many use cases! Super exciting. Please Excel team: dependent dropdowns / multiple dependent dropdowns??

[@learningtechie2964]

Waiting for google sheets to bring these in too .. had used excel formulas for over 15 years , but just 2 years back realised how much more powerful google sheets is ..

[@matthiasheuer]

Perfectly explained, Leila Gharani simply has it down, I always enjoy watching her videos.

[@sachinrv1]

These functions are so simple to use. No text to column, no transpose, no offset. This is more than one can expect. Time for everyone to switch to Office 365. Thanks Leila :)

[@donald-parker]

I get the value of the new functions, especially targeted at non programmers, but it would be nice if they added formal regex support. I've had my own UDFs for regex for several decades, but it would be nice if it came "out of the box"

[@RonDoh202]

WOW! - in a lot of our reports the emphasis in on text, names, organisation etc., top choice TEXTSPLIT, but also CHOOSECOLS - amazing - Liela does it again! Thanks Leila

[@Bill_Woo]

You are once again awesome. What a great site this is, and as a pro I have spent an enormous amount of time on webpages for Excel. And had you not published this, I would not have learned this - because other informational sources have too much *unimportant* info. The thing about this channel's videos is that IT SHOWS ONLY USEFUL AND PRACTICAL INFORMATION. And very, very well explained, simply enough to not leave me confused, but rapidly and efficiently delivered.

[@vitruvian_man]

I'm pumped about TEXTSPLIT!

[@mrCetus]

OMG! What an amazing "array" of array functions! Can't wait to have them generally available! BTW, difficult to choose a favourite yet, because for now all seem to be equally useful! Thank you Leila for this nice demo with clear explanation!👌👍

[@scateam9087]

Hi mam, I had no ideas about excel, 3 months back when I joined my new work. Thanks to you mam . Now IAM confident to work on Excel. God bless u.

[@pwerda]

Fantastic developments, but there still remains the challenge of having spill natured formulas to function within a table. Thanks Leila for the great explanation of underlying principles. Can't wait to use them.

[@danielsandovalarias6192]

I like all of them! lol. I didn't know the Text functions. Yesterday I had to use =Left(x,find(x)) to substract a word before the first comma. These text functions seem easier to use.

[@alcoolbc]

all of them... been programming for 35 years. Love your work on arrays. I'd about given up on excel but now see why 365 is fantastic. The way it handles dynamic arrays and indirect addressing is awesome. Thanks for your videos...

[@LeilaGharani]

Great to hear!

[@harshitsharma7998]

Amazing 😍😍and Great functions and always your great explanation

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you so much 😀

[@rickgilbrt]

I work with delimited multi-part identifiers all the time where I need a part of the identifier for sorting and grouping. TEXTBEFORE() and TEXTAFTER() have eliminated all those complicated MID()-plus-FIND() formulas I used to write. Yayyy!

[@omotossso]

Looks like we are having an SQL class. Thanks for the tips, I am updating my Microsoft already... I love this and you got much of my respect Leila Gharani ❤❤❤❤ I love the TextSplit, Expand, are so dope, I have used similar functions onTextBefore and TextAfter are in PQuerry before. Nonetheless, having them in Excel is so much cool RN..... WOOOOW

[@SL-og1qf]

Thank you so much, you’ve turned my tedious job into something I enjoy. It’s so insane that we have all these people in data/admin jobs that are never trained to use it to its full potential.

[@aemero7477]

All are amazing! I would say the TOROW AND TOCOLUMN functions are what I was looking for recently. Thank you so much!

[@AbhaySingh-vc2fk]

Wow, everyone was wonderful! I have been doing this with long long formula.... My heart goes to say THANKS TEAM EXCEL only after *Thank You Excel Queen Leila* !!!!

[@AzulonKaiba]

I love this new functions. They behave like many properties with a Pandas dataframe in Python. In others words an Excel user will get use to Python easier.

[@LeilaGharani]

👍

[@AzulonKaiba]

@@LeeMbarrett Something I would want to see, it's the integration of Regex without VBA that's a powerful feature of Google sheets.

[@alfredtomiamubiaya3330]

All the new functions are cool for me. Thanks for the heads up Leila and kudos.

[@majdyazigi8185]

Thank you Liela, for me chose column is the favorite

[@hidayatkhan4453]

You are not only beautiful but your way of teaching goes deep in heart. I feel like soon I'm going to be expert in excel. Im a big big duffer when it comes to technology. Being an accountant I have to use excel almost everyday. Credits goes to you Leila.

[@LeilaGharani]

You are so welcome.

[@jeffogren9953]

I remember 20 years ago learning the manual way to do some of these functions. I still have to look up old notes that I can now toss - huge time saver!

[@Nonas63]

Favorite? The TOCOL function. In the past it was a nightmare to add several coloums into one. There are some workarounds to get this done, but they are very time consuming. Thank you Leila for these great news and for the very nice video!

[@JJ_TheGreat]

Yes, I totally agree with you!

[@equestathon9618]

Powerquery was always the answer.

[@Nonas63]

@@equestathon9618 Yes and no. I have used PowerQuery for those tasks. But you have to press always the button to get it done. Then it dose not work if you open your Excel from a Sharepoint and other user are not familiar with PowerQuery and simply forget to press the button. It works but is not so convenient ass this new formular (and it is much easier to extend the area).

[@markpodesta4605]

Thank you Leila. Hopefully the new functions are rolled out very soon.

[@LeilaGharani]

I hope so too!

[@apostolos55goulandris97]

Ok, I'm gonna say it. IT WAS ABOUT TIME MS!!! We cried for getif/filter/concat/sort/split/join for years (I did more than 15 years ago) ... then we implement them in VBA (some needed just interface to be usable), and still cry that although very easy to have, enterprise environment didn't feel safe with VBA... then comes g... with the ?sheets that has it all, free, but is only online... and now, after so many years, MS decides to implement them... I say just OK, IT WAS ABOUT TIME!!! Thanks for the great presentation Leila.

[@LeilaGharani]

I agree, it was time 😊

[@hrleif8994]

Yes, Textsplit is it.! But think i still need Right. The names example. I want column with 1.Names, 2.empty or middlenames, and then 3.last Names. Found your channel a few weeks ago. Love Excel, and now this channel.

[@spoondi1]

textsplit is a very good one which I was looking out for a long time to replace many other formulas.

[@jscomputergenius3834]

Hello Leila, I really appreciate you very much for your superb presentations. The level of discernment that God bestowed upon you is beyond imagination. Thanks a million!!🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@jasonipfatsiong2062]

FAVOURITE…VSTACK…thanks update Leila..take care

[@Shmolitz]

I can slowly put aside Power Query thanks the this new functions. Thank you, many Excel files to update now!

[@thaer_me]

I don't understand why some people disliked this video! Thanks a lot, Leila. My favorite of these new functions are textsplit and take

[@SidheshMangle]

Wow.. these will fasten up and also simplifies lot of manual work.. My fav would be Vstack, textsplit n sort.. its very powerful.. thank you for sharing! 👏

[@georgekiplagat9251]

VSTACK/HSTACK & choosecols are my favorite. thanks for the video

[@dixonstroi]

So exciting. This is a huge trove of functions that replace writing complicated nesting fcns and custom fcns. TEXTSPLIT/BEFORE/AFTER are huge! No more RIGHT LEFT LEN FIND nesting! And then WRAPROWS/COLS replacing the OFFSET(,ROW()*wrap_count+COL()... or weird Power Query workarounds to reorganize sloppy pasted data! LET made all of that a lot easier, but now being able to cut down on LET lines is another game changer. If only these fcns were around 5-10 years ago, I'd have had weeks more productivity! So many exclamation points, but this is so exciting for a nerd like me. I know I'm in the right place to share that. Thanks for breaking these down, Leila! Glad we can count on you to bring us the latest Excel developments.

[@tristinhay5508]

Vstack is my favourite, with power queries from multiple pdf's with the same tables this will work so well

[@sethrichey6905]

Where was VSTACK last week when I spent all day trying to append arrays from multiple sheets into one? Seriously glad they came up with this one!

[@LyleStacpoole]

unbelievable the code that must go behind these functions - textsplit is definitely the one I would use to separate single columns into multiple columns of data ... thanks Leila ...

[@LeilaGharani]

Yes, the knowledge required to do this. Just brilliant minds at work.

[@SustainaBIT]

Do You Have any idea how much I was striving for such group of equations?!!!,, I have been doing these same functions the completely hard way, this is a life savior and THANKS A TON for posting this video, I never regret watching any of your videos

[@j.etl.h4362]

Leila, your videos have become a reference in our company. Thank you for your brilliant work.

[@McKaySavage]

WOW WOW WOW! Those new arrays solve 90% of my complex workarounds from my spreadsheets and replace most of the top 5 custom lambdas I built and use. It also catches up finally with some key Sheets functions. Once these are fully available, these will be daily uses for me. Super impressed with Excel’s development team this last few years. Thanks for sharing this!

[@LeilaGharani]

You're very welcome!

[@BasVogel]

Actually the VSTACk I recently needed a lot - now having top copy/paste multiple data sets together for analysis.

[@lisahochhauser5176]

Ok... these are all amazing... the end was something I'll start using right away. Vstack + Expand - This will really help me with all the dirty data I get!

[@rdeabreu6010]

Wonderful! I just used a combination of FILTER, SORT, TAKE, CHOOSECOLS to define a top X in a year out of a list that consists of 46.000 items. Before I had to use long and complex formulas to get the same result.

[@growth2509]

I like CHOOSECOLS! I'm thinking of a lot of possibilities with that one. Thanks for sharing!

[@equestathon9618]

Before I was acquainted with powerquery most my sheets had these stupid nested ifs to manually split by delimiter, glad to see they implemented an easier way. Wrap is incredibly useful for stupidly setup data, especially when you’re copy+pasting from pdfs for some reason.

[@EnlightenedOne90]

I wish I could find someone who gets excited to see me the way Leila gets excited to see new excel functions.

[@pegmolter3542]

My favorite - TEXTAFTER - I've been doing this with a convoluted formula that requires two helper columns for years. Can't wait to see these rolll out!

[@ernestaboagye3385]

My favorite is going to be CHOOSECOLS. These are awesome 👍

[@sheldondias7351]

TOCOL, TOROW, VSTACK & HSTACK will be very handy in ordering data

[@hassanraza-vb5ss]

My fvt function is choose column. Thanks alot Leila!! :)

[@andrewcharlesmoss]

This is awesome! More functions that will speed up our workflows. I am especially excited about TOCOL, which is Excel’s answer to Google Sheets’ FLATTEN!

[@voievod9260]

Good times for Excel trainers like me also. We get to update our courses. So nice that I can finally put Left, Mid and Right functions to rest ! RIP, you will be missed.

[@martinhoude3518]

Well, since I JUST got the Lambda function, I think it will take a while before the Mac version gets these. I have to say, my favorite might well be the TOROW & TOCOL functions. The TEXTSPLIT is also nice, but it's much easier to replace with the older functions and the LEN function. In contrast, the TOROW and TOCOL replace a lot of copy-pasting that is done before any formulas can be applied. The other functions are also nice; I just have to face these situations less often.

[@Daenoril]

Those functions are awesome! Favorites should be VSTACK and TEXTSPLIT

[@ashishshiriskar123]

OMG excel will make our life more easy... Superb Teaching

[@herwigsyen804]

Thanks 👍 I agree, textsplit is the one I see immediate use for

[@Fruits4Salad]

DAYSPLIT made my day; really happy about it. Thanks for having shared this with us.

[@rajsahu1029]

Wonderful. Now, all functions are working in my Microsoft 365

[@shahbazraza8605]

Such an insightful video, My favourite formulas are Text split, tocol, torow and Vstake

[@unnikrishnansanthosh]

Thank you Leila, excellent explanation, now all those left right mid formulas are to be archived

[@LeilaGharani]

👍

[@davidbinder8360]

I agree that TEXTSPLIT is probably the most useful based on how often I’ve needed to parse names or other data into separate columns. That said, I expect to find creative uses for many of the others eventually, especially in combination with other functions like the ones you highlighted (SORT, UNIQUE, FILTER, etc). Great presentation as always!

[@JSpeedy306]

I can't even imagine how would I make my Google sheets working without SPLIT. Something like SEARCH with LEFT?

[@agustin47]

Wow, for TOROW, we used to do =INDEX(Range,1+INT((ROW(A1)-1)/COLUMNS(Range)),MOD(ROW(A1)-1+COLUMNS(Range),COLUMNS(Range))+1), which was crazy. I am super happy this is now a normal feature

[@LeilaGharani]

Yeah, so much easier now 😊

[@diegoveloso9001]

This is one of the most useful videos I have ever watched!!!! Thank you

[@noush4283]

Thanks my favorite is TOCOL and text split

[@mariamardon4084]

TEXTSPLIT is my favourite! Thank you for sharing. You are my favourite go-to for all Excel tips.

[@charlie5116]

For those who don't have Office 365, you can find quite some these functions in G-Sheets. That's also the reason why now I choose G-Sheets over Excel. For me, Excel is more like a versatile tool box, and in contrast G-Sheets is like a handy Swiss Army knife.

[@ooops372]

EXPAND is also useful, because it is much shorter than =CHOOSE({1.2.3};...) (also returning a SPILL-Array).

[@GhazaliConsulting]

Thanks Ms. Leila you're my inspiration

[@henrycokoli9854]

The choosecols and chooserows are goonna be popular indeed

[@eddieamorgan]

Happy Nowruz. I know it's early, but I was at a Nowruz party yesterday. I was asked if I knew any Persian women I respected and liked. You and Christiane Amanpour were the first women that jumped into my mind. PS. I went to the American International School of Mallorca graduated in 1988. 40% of the students there were from Iran, many of them refugees. So, you're younger than I am, and remind me of those snotty little Iranian girls that kid ass in math classes ;) Once again, thank you for your excel spreadsheets instructions. They always help me out. Thank you for what you do. You are the best.

[@peterl2866]

TEXTSPLIT all day long, thanks Leila

[@cavyommmehta]

Thank you Leila. The video is very much informative. I was waiting for new excel formulas and Your Explanation. 👍✔️💯

[@leksdic]

OMG. textbefore and textafter are gonna be of so much help. in my company product descriptions are like this "000000-description". so far after haveing downloaded the data from the BI tool i have to transform it before i send it away. So far i would do =left(A1,6) most of the time, but some old product codes are 5 digits, so i'd have to use search too. For the description i have to do =right(A1,len(A1)-search(A1;"-")). Now i can use just 2 formulas straight up. This is just too good.

[@mundonemesis]

Thank you Leila. New functions to make life easier. Now let's use them! :)

[@rkrajeev2357]

Leila excellent video. Keep it up and help everyone with these simple but useful functions.

[@antemilardovic71]

I don't see it yet, but yay for the new text formulas! I just hope textbefore and textafter allow a negative instance num to go from the right side (so -1 would be last instance, -2 second last instance, etc.)....

[@samuelanane-kyei4822]

Wow, I'm so happy to hear about TEXTSPLIT, TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER because of what I normally do with Excel. I think Excel is becoming more powerful each year. Thanks for this video.

[@ClintPenrod]

VStack is amazing for auditing purposes. I'm so excited. Thanks for the early video on what's coming.

[@LeilaGharani]

You're so welcome!

[@fadamarcus4457]

Leila, just come across your channel and i have learned a lot of insightful useful things on excel. Good job!

[@chrissears9912]

These formulae will be so useful in so many ways. I have so many worksheets where I've had to write these the long way!! I'm glad to see Microsoft investing in Excel capability -- it is becoming so much faster & easier to create powerful workbooks, which are readable. Thanks for sharing these!

[@mattschoular8844]

Thanks Leila. It seems MS has taken many key features and options from Power Query and Pivot Tables and converted them into dynamic array functions. I can see many use cases for the in the future. Much appreciated...

[@pravinr197]

Leila Mam, my favorite one is text split. Thank you for your fabulous video

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad you liked it!

[@nathanmclauchlan5148]

VSTACK & CHOOSECOLS are my favourites

[@zhangali]

My favorite seems to be also TEXTSPLIT!

[@richardhay645]

Choose a favorite? Like choosing between a hammer vs saw vs screwdriver!! All are important and useful new tools. BTW The CHOOSEROWS/COLS will both be useful as formula to do the job of the HIDE feature I am not sure if all Insiders got these 14 new functions at the same time but I had mine by the time Bill J posted his video. But I didn't see them until his post. Your video was a great introduction and summary. Thanks

[@LeilaGharani]

Wow, you're lucky. I only got it on 1 of my 5 machines :)

[@kennkeitaro2474]

I've been looking a way to stack datas in spreadsheet... and there is it the Tocol & Vstack Formula yay!

[@rocqitmon]

the text split before and after are grep functionalities that needed to be on Excel since everrrrr!