Thanks, but that returns the sum over all the values, not the maximum of the
individual vales.

"pdberger" wrote:

jz --

Here's something that works, but you can't use if for an entire column:

=sumproduct(A1:A100,--(B1:B100="word"))

HTH

"jzingman" wrote:

I want the maximum of column A when column B contains a certain word. I tried
=max(A:A*(B:B="word"))

but get 0. Thinking that the B reference was the problem, I tried

=max(B:B="word")

and get 0, although if I choose a cell that contains word,

=max(B5="word")

I get 1. So clearly I don't know how to do this reference. What's the
right way?

Thanks