Natalie,

Isn't that because it is referring to the rank, not the number. So when 2 is
in position 9, the third largest is 9, when it is in position 7, the 2nd
largest is in in 9?

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"Natalie" wrote in message
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Thanks Bryan, So near yet so far.
unfortunately its a bad example because whilst your formula works
brilliantly for this example (i.e. the numbers are in descending order) if
I
swap the numbers 5 and 2 around in the list, 2 is still 9 using your
formula
instead of its new position 7, and 5 is still 7 instead of its new
position 9.
Any ideas? This ones really stumped me.
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Natalie


"Bryan Hessey" wrote:


Try

=IF(LARGE(A$1:A$9,ROW())0,MATCH(LARGE(A$1:A$9,ROW ()),A$1:A$9,0),"")

and formula-copy down to row 9

It will present the position required, but in descending sort order.

Hope this helps


Natalie Wrote:
Does someone have a method for identifying a set of numbers by their
position
within in a list.
For example
0,0,0,10,0,0,5,0,2
If I want to identify all the items that are not equal to zero, by
their
position
10 would return 4, 5 would return 7, and 2 would return 9
I need to identify every occurance.
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