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ARRAYFORMULA

Unsupported (not recognized)

Category: Google · Last tested 2026-09-01

Real compatibility results for the ARRAYFORMULA function: executed in Excel for the web, Google Sheets and LibreOffice Calc, measured against Google’s published documentation. Excel does not document ARRAYFORMULA, so this page makes no claim about Excel. Syntax and links to that documentation are below.

Support matrix

EngineDocumentedLive-testedVerdict
Excel (desktop)No n/a (not an Excel function) n/a
Excel for the web— Yes (recalc, 2026-09-01) Unsupported (not recognized)
Google SheetsYes Yes (Drive import, 2026-09-01) Supported, behaves as documented
LibreOffice CalcNo Yes (25.8.7.3, 2026-09-01) Unsupported (not recognized)

LibreOffice version history

We executed the same test cases under each LibreOffice release to show exactly when ARRAYFORMULA’s support changed — not documentation claims, real results.

LibreOffice versionVerdictTested
24.2.0.3 Unsupported (not recognized) 2026-09-01
24.8.7.2 Unsupported (not recognized) 2026-09-01
25.2.0.3 Unsupported (not recognized) 2026-09-01
25.8.7.3 Unsupported (not recognized) 2026-09-01

Why isn't ARRAYFORMULA working in LibreOffice?

LibreOffice Calc does not implement ARRAYFORMULA as of 25.8.7.3 — in our executed tests it returns a #NAME? (unrecognized function) error. This is not a typo or a settings problem, and saving the file as .xlsx does not change it: the function simply isn’t available yet. Watch the LibreOffice version support page — we re-run every test on each new release, so it will flip to Supported here as soon as it lands.

Discovered quirks

Executed test cases

Excel for the web (executed 2026-09-01 via OneDrive recalculation)

These values come from Excel for the web, not from desktop Excel. They are two different implementations of the calculation engine, and this run measured only the web one: the corpus was uploaded to OneDrive as .xlsx, recalculated by Excel for the web on open, and downloaded again for readback. Excel for the web is a rolling service with no pinnable version, so the run is identified by its date. Where a value here disagrees with the Expected column — which is Microsoft’s documentation of the desktop product — we cannot tell you whether the web engine diverges from the desktop one or the documentation is wrong about both, because we do not run desktop Excel.

FormulaDescriptionResultExpectedVerdict
=ARRAYFORMULA(A1:C1+A2:C2) The page's own Sample Usage line: two same-sized ranges added elementwise {#NAME?, #NAME?, #NAME?} {11, 22, 33}
Provenance

Google's Sample Usage prints ARRAYFORMULA(A1:C1+A2:C2) and NO result, and populates none of the cells, so both the data and the answer here are this corpus's. The result is DERIVED from the page's definition -- "Enables the display of values returned from an array formula into multiple rows and/or columns" -- with the `array_formula` argument described as "a mathematical expression using one cell range or multiple ranges of the same size". ARRAY RESULT: this case spills more than one cell, so it is written as a real array formula over an explicit check_range and compared cell by cell in row-major order, the same convention SORT, UNIQUE, SEQUENCE and TEXTSPLIT already use in this corpus. Google's ARRAYFORMULA page, read live on 2026-08-31 at https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093275. BATCH PROVENANCE (batch H, the first Sheets/LibreOffice-only batch). Every function in this batch has x == false in docs/data/compat.json: it is a Google Sheets function that Microsoft does not document at all, so this corpus makes NO claim about it in that engine and nothing here is measured against that vendor's documentation. The authority is Google's own support.google.com function page, cited by full URL and by the date it was read -- Google publishes no version number for these pages, so a bare URL dates nothing. WHAT GOOGLE ACTUALLY PRINTS, WHICH IS LESS THAN IT LOOKS: most of these pages carry a 'Sample Usage' block of FORMULAS WITH NO RESULTS. Where a value below is Google's own published output the note says so; where it is derived from the page's stated semantics the note says that instead, and says from which sentence. No value in this batch was taken from a search snippet, a blog or a mirror. LIBREOFFICE: probed on all four pinned builds (24.2.0.3, 24.8.7.2, 25.2.0.3, 25.8.7.3) in five storage spellings -- plain, _xlfn., COM.MICROSOFT., ORG.OPENOFFICE. and _xlfn.ORG.OPENOFFICE. -- and #NAME? under every one of them, so the expected values below describe Google Sheets and the LibreOffice column records absence.

Mismatch
=ARRAYFORMULA(SUM(IF(A1:A10>5,A1:A10,0))) The page's other Sample Usage line: IF applied across a range #NAME? 40
Provenance

The page's own second sample formula, over data this corpus supplied. 6+7+8+9+10 = 40. This is the case that exercises the SECOND half of the definition, "the use of non-array functions with arrays" -- IF is scalar, and without the wrapper it would see the range as a single condition rather than ten. DERIVED, not published. Google's ARRAYFORMULA page, read live on 2026-08-31 at https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093275.

Mismatch
=ARRAYFORMULA(1+1) A wrapper around an expression that is not an array at all #NAME? 2
Provenance

DERIVED. The page describes ARRAYFORMULA as ENABLING array display, never as changing a value, so wrapping a scalar must be a no-op. Google publishes no example of this. Google's ARRAYFORMULA page, read live on 2026-08-31 at https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093275.

Mismatch
=SUM(ARRAYFORMULA(LEN(A1:A3))) LEN, a scalar function, evaluated across a three-cell range #NAME? 6
Provenance

DERIVED from the same "use of non-array functions with arrays" clause: LEN of a range yields 1, 2 and 3, which sum to 6. Summed rather than spilled so the assertion is a single unambiguous number. Google's ARRAYFORMULA page, read live on 2026-08-31 at https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093275.

Mismatch

Google Sheets (executed 2026-09-01 via Drive import)

Google Sheets is a rolling service with no pinnable version, so this run is identified by its date. The corpus was imported to Drive as .xlsx, recalculated by Sheets, and exported back for readback.

FormulaDescriptionResultExpectedVerdict
=ARRAYFORMULA(A1:C1+A2:C2) The page's own Sample Usage line: two same-sized ranges added elementwise {11, 22.0, 33.0} {11, 22, 33}
Provenance

Google's Sample Usage prints ARRAYFORMULA(A1:C1+A2:C2) and NO result, and populates none of the cells, so both the data and the answer here are this corpus's. The result is DERIVED from the page's definition -- "Enables the display of values returned from an array formula into multiple rows and/or columns" -- with the `array_formula` argument described as "a mathematical expression using one cell range or multiple ranges of the same size". ARRAY RESULT: this case spills more than one cell, so it is written as a real array formula over an explicit check_range and compared cell by cell in row-major order, the same convention SORT, UNIQUE, SEQUENCE and TEXTSPLIT already use in this corpus. Google's ARRAYFORMULA page, read live on 2026-08-31 at https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093275. BATCH PROVENANCE (batch H, the first Sheets/LibreOffice-only batch). Every function in this batch has x == false in docs/data/compat.json: it is a Google Sheets function that Microsoft does not document at all, so this corpus makes NO claim about it in that engine and nothing here is measured against that vendor's documentation. The authority is Google's own support.google.com function page, cited by full URL and by the date it was read -- Google publishes no version number for these pages, so a bare URL dates nothing. WHAT GOOGLE ACTUALLY PRINTS, WHICH IS LESS THAN IT LOOKS: most of these pages carry a 'Sample Usage' block of FORMULAS WITH NO RESULTS. Where a value below is Google's own published output the note says so; where it is derived from the page's stated semantics the note says that instead, and says from which sentence. No value in this batch was taken from a search snippet, a blog or a mirror. LIBREOFFICE: probed on all four pinned builds (24.2.0.3, 24.8.7.2, 25.2.0.3, 25.8.7.3) in five storage spellings -- plain, _xlfn., COM.MICROSOFT., ORG.OPENOFFICE. and _xlfn.ORG.OPENOFFICE. -- and #NAME? under every one of them, so the expected values below describe Google Sheets and the LibreOffice column records absence.

Matched
=ARRAYFORMULA(SUM(IF(A1:A10>5,A1:A10,0))) The page's other Sample Usage line: IF applied across a range 40 40
Provenance

The page's own second sample formula, over data this corpus supplied. 6+7+8+9+10 = 40. This is the case that exercises the SECOND half of the definition, "the use of non-array functions with arrays" -- IF is scalar, and without the wrapper it would see the range as a single condition rather than ten. DERIVED, not published. Google's ARRAYFORMULA page, read live on 2026-08-31 at https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093275.

Matched
=ARRAYFORMULA(1+1) A wrapper around an expression that is not an array at all 2 2
Provenance

DERIVED. The page describes ARRAYFORMULA as ENABLING array display, never as changing a value, so wrapping a scalar must be a no-op. Google publishes no example of this. Google's ARRAYFORMULA page, read live on 2026-08-31 at https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093275.

Matched
=SUM(ARRAYFORMULA(LEN(A1:A3))) LEN, a scalar function, evaluated across a three-cell range 6 6
Provenance

DERIVED from the same "use of non-array functions with arrays" clause: LEN of a range yields 1, 2 and 3, which sum to 6. Summed rather than spilled so the assertion is a single unambiguous number. Google's ARRAYFORMULA page, read live on 2026-08-31 at https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093275.

Matched

LibreOffice Calc 25.8.7.3 (tested 2026-09-01)

FormulaDescriptionResultExpectedVerdict
=ARRAYFORMULA(A1:C1+A2:C2) The page's own Sample Usage line: two same-sized ranges added elementwise {#NAME?, #NAME?, #NAME?} {11, 22, 33}
Provenance

Google's Sample Usage prints ARRAYFORMULA(A1:C1+A2:C2) and NO result, and populates none of the cells, so both the data and the answer here are this corpus's. The result is DERIVED from the page's definition -- "Enables the display of values returned from an array formula into multiple rows and/or columns" -- with the `array_formula` argument described as "a mathematical expression using one cell range or multiple ranges of the same size". ARRAY RESULT: this case spills more than one cell, so it is written as a real array formula over an explicit check_range and compared cell by cell in row-major order, the same convention SORT, UNIQUE, SEQUENCE and TEXTSPLIT already use in this corpus. Google's ARRAYFORMULA page, read live on 2026-08-31 at https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093275. BATCH PROVENANCE (batch H, the first Sheets/LibreOffice-only batch). Every function in this batch has x == false in docs/data/compat.json: it is a Google Sheets function that Microsoft does not document at all, so this corpus makes NO claim about it in that engine and nothing here is measured against that vendor's documentation. The authority is Google's own support.google.com function page, cited by full URL and by the date it was read -- Google publishes no version number for these pages, so a bare URL dates nothing. WHAT GOOGLE ACTUALLY PRINTS, WHICH IS LESS THAN IT LOOKS: most of these pages carry a 'Sample Usage' block of FORMULAS WITH NO RESULTS. Where a value below is Google's own published output the note says so; where it is derived from the page's stated semantics the note says that instead, and says from which sentence. No value in this batch was taken from a search snippet, a blog or a mirror. LIBREOFFICE: probed on all four pinned builds (24.2.0.3, 24.8.7.2, 25.2.0.3, 25.8.7.3) in five storage spellings -- plain, _xlfn., COM.MICROSOFT., ORG.OPENOFFICE. and _xlfn.ORG.OPENOFFICE. -- and #NAME? under every one of them, so the expected values below describe Google Sheets and the LibreOffice column records absence.

Mismatch
=ARRAYFORMULA(SUM(IF(A1:A10>5,A1:A10,0))) The page's other Sample Usage line: IF applied across a range #NAME? 40
Provenance

The page's own second sample formula, over data this corpus supplied. 6+7+8+9+10 = 40. This is the case that exercises the SECOND half of the definition, "the use of non-array functions with arrays" -- IF is scalar, and without the wrapper it would see the range as a single condition rather than ten. DERIVED, not published. Google's ARRAYFORMULA page, read live on 2026-08-31 at https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093275.

Mismatch
=ARRAYFORMULA(1+1) A wrapper around an expression that is not an array at all #NAME? 2
Provenance

DERIVED. The page describes ARRAYFORMULA as ENABLING array display, never as changing a value, so wrapping a scalar must be a no-op. Google publishes no example of this. Google's ARRAYFORMULA page, read live on 2026-08-31 at https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093275.

Mismatch
=SUM(ARRAYFORMULA(LEN(A1:A3))) LEN, a scalar function, evaluated across a three-cell range #NAME? 6
Provenance

DERIVED from the same "use of non-array functions with arrays" clause: LEN of a range yields 1, 2 and 3, which sum to 6. Summed rather than spilled so the assertion is a single unambiguous number. Google's ARRAYFORMULA page, read live on 2026-08-31 at https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093275.

Mismatch

Docs & syntax

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