Microsoft Excel gurus, your prayers have been answered — more than one value can now be in a single cell as a new era of spreadsheets dawns
Pro Microsoft Excel gurus, your prayers have been answered — more than one value can now be in a single cell as a new era of spreadsheets dawns News By Craig Hale Published 28 September 2026 Microsoft just upgraded your cells When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Commas and semicolons will then go on to denote a list within a single cell, allowing other core Excel functions like filtering to still work.At the same time, Microsoft is also adding array and nested array support to single cells and four new functions – FLATTEN, HAS, HASANY and HASALL – to interact with them. You may like Microsoft finally fixes this annoying Excel paste problem, but you probably never even noticed Microsoft is dropping its Excel Copilot function after only a year This year's Microsoft Excel World Championship was the wildest yet — so who came out on top?
- ▪Pro Microsoft Excel gurus, your prayers have been answered — more than one value can now be in a single cell as a new era of spreadsheets dawns News By Craig Hale Published 28 September 2026 Microsoft just upgraded your cells When you purch
- ▪Commas and semicolons will then go on to denote a list within a single cell, allowing other core Excel functions like filtering to still work.At the same time, Microsoft is also adding array and nested array support to single cells and four
- ▪You may like Microsoft finally fixes this annoying Excel paste problem, but you probably never even noticed Microsoft is dropping its Excel Copilot function after only a year This year's Microsoft Excel World Championship was the wildest ye
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Pro Microsoft Excel gurus, your prayers have been answered — more than one value can now be in a single cell as a new era of spreadsheets dawns News By Craig Hale Published 28 September 2026 Microsoft just upgraded your cells When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Microsoft) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Excel cells used to just be for one value – but multi-value lists are soon to be supportedWindows and Mac users can now try it out in betaYou'll still have to specifically insert a listMicrosoft Excel has just seen one of the biggest updates…
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