ahhh...i see!...it tested negative values and it seems to work
fine...however things go wonky when there are less then 10 records. RANK
still shows 10, even if there are less than 10 records.

eg.
COL B...........COL C................COL D
Line 8....NAME...........Volume..............Volume Rank
Line 9....Name1..............45........................ 2
Line 10...Name2..............0......................... 9 (this should show
5 or 4)
Line 11...Name3.............101......................3
Line 12...Name4..............20.......................1
Line 13...Name5..............0........................1 0 (this should show
5 or 4)

Sandi

"Bernie Deitrick" <deitbe @ consumer dot org wrote in message
...
Sandi,

RANK doesn't ignore zeroes, so you need to reduce the RANK result by the
number of zero values (thus the first COUNTIF). Then to get the RANK for
zero values, you can't use RANK at all, and need to count the number of
non-zero values, and add up any other zeroes in the list.

Of course, this would probably all fall apart if any of your values were
negative....

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"Sandi" wrote in message
...
Bernie - thank u so much! it works!
I would love to understand more on how this works if you have a minute!
I'm lost after: IF(B9="","",IF(C9<0,RANK(C9,$C$9:$C$18,TRUE)
Thanks again!
Sandi

"Bernie Deitrick" <deitbe @ consumer dot org wrote in message
...
Sandi,

=IF(B9="","",IF(C9<0,RANK(C9,$C$9:$C$18,TRUE)-COUNTIF($C$9:$C$18,0),COUNTIF($C$9:$C$18,"<0")+CO UNTIF($C$9:C9,0)))

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"Sandi" wrote in message
...
Hi All - would appreciate your assistance! I am having a problem with
how the RANK function ranks ZERO values.

In the sample below, the VOLUME RANK for NAME2 is 1.0 - since the
VOLUME value is Zero (0), i would like it to read 10.
All the other RANKS are calculating correctly (in ascending order so
low numbers are given a high rank)

The formula in the VOLUME RANK (COL. D) field is:
=IF(B9="","",RANK(C9,$C$9:$C$18,1))

COL B...........COL C................COL D
Line 8....NAME...........Volume..............Volume Rank
Line 9....Name1..............25........................ 2
Line 10...Name2..............0......................... 1 (i want this
rank to read 10)
Line 11...Name3..............62.......................6
Line 12...Name4..............53.......................4
Line 13...Name5..............67.......................8
Line 14...Name6..............65.......................7
Line 15...Name7..............56.......................5
Line 16...Name8..............109...................10
Line 17...Name9..............96.......................9
Line 18...Name10............30.......................3

Thanks!
Sandi