Use the RANDARRAY() dynamic array function to return random names or other text in Microsoft Excel.

Microsoft is making some improvements to how formulas work in Excel, with a new feature called Dynamic Arrays that allows formulas to output values to more than one cell at a time.

An curved arrow pointing right. {} These brackets mean something magical is happening inside your Excel formula. An "Array" function allows you to perform mathematical operations on many cells ...

The Collapsed Text Method employs the `TEXTJOIN` function to collapse multiple values from a dynamic array into a single text string for display in a table.

Excel already lets you target columns in tables fairly easily, but working with arrays hasn’t been as easy and now that any formula that returns multiple results spills them into a dynamic array ...