Thanks guys. That was very useful and successful.

"Max" wrote:

Perhaps another play to try in the interim ..

Assuming only a single cell within I15:O15 would evaluate to 0 at any
time, try, array-entered:

=IF(ISNA(MATCH(TRUE,I15:O150,0)),"",MATCH(TRUE,I1 5:O150,0)+8)

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