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Default Need to find the higest alpahbetic name in a list of names

=INDEX(A1:A5,MATCH(MAX(CODE(UPPER(A1:A5))),CODE(UP PER(A1:A5)),0))

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"Carlo" wrote:

Hi there,

I have a list of names like Andrew, Zachary, Jeff etc and I need to find out
which one is the highest alphabetically. The max function doesn't seem to
work.

Is this possible?

Thanks

Carlo