Thanks to both of you. Both or your solutions worked. Thank You

I now have a followup question Is there a way for the fomula to
work if the criteria row only has one, two values (in b6:d6) ?
(of course there needs to be criteria in A6)
With the formula Max gave, if 3 criteria are not entered I get
#N/A.

Steve


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"Alan Beban" wrote in message
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Another try with the same layout:

=MIN(VLOOKUP(A6,A2:F4,MATCH(B6:D6,A1:F1,0),0)) array entered

Alan Beban

Max wrote:
One try ..

Assuming this table is in A1:F4

Red Green Blue Yellow Orange
PET 6 8 14 3 2
OAK 5 6 7 8 12
SJC 2 7 11 8 5


and this "criteria range" is in A6:D6

PET Red Blue Yellow


Put in say, E6:

=MIN(TRANSPOSE(OFFSET($A$1,MATCH(A6,A:A,0)-1,MATCH(B6:D6,B1:F1,0))))

Array-enter the formula,
i.e. press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER
instead of just pressing ENTER

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"Steve R" wrote in message
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I am looking for a formula to return the minimum value from a table

(below)

Red Green Blue Yellow Orange
PET 6 8 14 3 2
OAK 5 6 7 8 12
SJC 2 7 11 8 5

If the following lookup info is entered into 4 cells(below)

PET Red Blue Yellow - The value "3" is returned since it is the minimum
value in the "PET row" of the 3 items listed

Thanks for any help
Steve