Here's a link to a sample file with all 3 formulas: Max, Min and Start:

http://cjoint.com/?lotkj4EknH

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Eric" wrote in message
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I get one more question, if I would like to find the lowest value based on
the given condition, do you have any suggestions on how to modify the
code? I
have tried to replace max with min, but it does not work.
Do you have any suggestions?
Thank you very much for any suggestions
Eric

"T. Valko" wrote:

One possibility...

Insert a new row 1.

Enter 0 in C1

Enter this formula in C2 and copy down to C17:

=IF(A3<A2,"",MAX(B2:INDEX(B$1:B$17,MATCH(1000,C$1: C1)+1)))

Screencap:

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/6775/max1lg7.jpg

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Eric" wrote in message
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Does anyone have any suggestions on how to determine the number under
following conditions?
There is a list of number under column A & B, and I would like to
determine
the highest values based on following conditions.
If any number under column A is smaller than the previous one from
bottom
to
top direction, then this is the starting point, such as row 5 is the
starting
point, because in cell A6 is 6 and in cell A5 is 2. The other starting
point
will be in cell A10 and cell A15.
Once the starting point is determine, then I would like to determine
the
highest value from starting point to the top as long as the number in
column
A is larger than previous one, such as
in cell A10, the highest number column B from row 10 to row 6 is 115.27
in
cell C10. The reason to select the number up to row 6 is that the
number
in
cell A6 is larger than the number in cell A5, therefore, this define as
the
ending point. Therefore, I would like to determine the highest number
within
the range from starting point to ending point. Another example will be
from
row 15 to row 11, the highest number within this range is 114.65 in
cell
C15,
and another example will be from row 5 to row 1, the highest number
within
this range is 114.54 in cell C5.

row 1 6 110.9
row 2 5 112.66
row 3 4 113.29
row 4 3 114.51
row 5 2 114.54
row 6 6 114.74
row 7 5 114.87
row 8 4 115.27
row 9 3 114.72
row 10 2 114.69
row 11 6 114.01
row 12 5 114.09
row 13 4 113.94
row 14 3 114.65
row 15 2 114.07
row 16 6 115.15

Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Eric