How to use Excel's array-formulas for a UDF to read each cell correctly?

Question

G\'Day,

I have a question more towards helping myself understand how Excel\'s array-formulas (Control+Shift+Enter) can read each cell dynamically into the formula.

Answer 1

you need to make you array function read the data into an array, process it and create an output array.
Then the array function nneeds to be entered in a multi-cell array formula (D3:D7) using ctrl-shift-enter.

Public Function MakesSound(AnimalName As Range) As Variant
Dim Ansa() As Variant
Dim vData As Variant
Dim j As Long
vData = AnimalName.Value2
ReDim Ansa(1 To UBound(vData), 1 To 1)
For j = 1 To UBound(vData)
    Select Case vData(j, 1)
    Case Is = "Duck"
        Ansa(j, 1) = "Quack!"
    Case Is = "Cow"
        Ansa(j, 1) = "Moo!"
    Case Is = "Bird"
        Ansa(j, 1) = "Tweet!"
    Case Is = "Sheep"
        Ansa(j, 1) = "Ba-Ba-Ba!"
    Case Is = "Dog"
        Ansa(j, 1) = "Woof!"
    Case Else
        Ansa(j, 1) = "Eh?"
    End Select
Next j
MakesSound = Ansa
End Function