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Ron Rosenfeld Ron Rosenfeld is offline
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Default Function to find the first cell that is not zero

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:22:41 +1000, "Mark"
wrote:

I know Ron, sorry but I had a wireless net failure. It happens.




Answered in your other thread:


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What do you mean by "find" the first cell?

This **array-entered** formula will return the column number of the first cell
in row 1 with a non-zero entry (enter with <ctrl-shift-enter)

=MATCH(1,ISNUMBER(1:1)*(1:1<0),0)

This **array-entered** formula will return the value in that cell:


=INDIRECT(ADDRESS(1,MATCH(1,ISNUMBER(1:1)*(1:1<0) ,0)))
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--ron