Convert an Array Formula's Text Results into a Usable Format

Question

When the results of an Array Formula are numbers, I find it generally easy to find an appropriate method to collapse the array into a single result. However when the results

Answer 1

I would try to address the several question raised in this post:

how to get a formula to work which takes an array of text results, and either converts it into a 'usable range' [so it can be plugged into Concatenate above],

Even if the first part of this question is feasible, the last part (i.e. "[so it can be plugged into Concatenate above]" is not possible as the CONCATENATE function does not take ranges as argument.

or can be manipulated with text arguments immediately [such as mid, search, substitute, etc.]? Right now the only method I can see would be using example 3 above, and then going further and saying, for example, Concatenate(C1,C2,C3...C10).

That’s certainly one method, but please give a try to this:

Let's start from this:

Now assume that I want to take the results in Example 3, and perform some text manipulation on them. For example, assume I want to concatenate them all into a single string of text.

But first let’s assume the following:

-. Data range is located at D10:F510 and includes fields: Product, Product, Sales and Product Name (Selection)*

*used to list results from formula in example 3

.- Data contains 23 records complying with the criteria defined in example 1 (see Fig. 1)

.- Value 400 is enter in cell E4 to ease modifications to the criteria instead of hard code in the formulas (see Fig. 3).

Fig. 1

Now, in order to generate an Array with the concatenated results and to post it a usable range, let’s apply a minor modification to the formula in example 3. Enter this FormulaArray in G11 and copy till last record (not just 10 lines)

=TRIM(CONCATENATE(
IF(ROW(G11)-ROW(G$11)+1=1,"",G10)," ",
IFERROR(INDEX($E$11:$E$510,
SMALL(IF(VALUE(RIGHT($D$11:$D$510,3))>$E$4,ROW($D$11:$D$510)-ROW($D$11)+1,""),
ROW(G11)-ROW(G$11)+1)),"")))

Fig. 2

The in the Summary section located at D4:E8 we have the results from examples 1 & 2 and the Concatenated results with the list of selected products (see Fig. 3). Enter this formula in E8 (suggest to increase the row height to the max of 409 and Wrap Text to true)

=INDEX($M$11:$M$510,1+MAX(ROW($M$11:$M$510))-ROW($D$11))

Fig. 3

As regards this question:

Is there a way to access multiple text elements from a 'Formula Array result', without individually selecting (eg: with INDEX)?

On this particular case (i.e. concatenation of array elements) I would apply a different perspective and generate the array with concatenated results then to pick the needed element, even if the use of INDEX is required.

Last I would like to make a minor note about these formulas:

Example 2:

=INDEX(B1:B500,MIN(IF(VALUE(RIGHT(A1:A500,3))>400,ROW(A1:A500),"")))

If the data range does not start at Row 1 use this formula instead:

=INDEX($E$11:$E$510,MIN(IF(VALUE(RIGHT($D$11:$D$510,3))>400,
1+ROW($D$11:$D$510)-ROW($D$11),"")))

Example 3:

=INDEX($B$1:$B$500,SMALL(IF(VALUE(RIGHT($A$1:$A$500,3))>400,ROW($A$1:$A$500),""),ROW()))

If the data range does not start at Row 1 use this formula instead:

=IFERROR(INDEX($E$11:$E$510,
SMALL(IF(VALUE(RIGHT($D$11:$D$510,3))>$E$4,
1+ROW($D$11:$D$510)-ROW($D$11),""),
1+ROW()-ROW($K$11))),"")