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Default How to find the highest name in an alphabetic list?

Thanks Don,

This works for me

"Don Guillett" wrote:

correct for wordwrap
=LOOKUP(2,1/((COUNTIF(A1:A21,""&A1:A21)=0)*(A1:A21<"")),A1:A 21)
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Don Guillett
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"Grd" wrote in message
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The max function doesn't seem to work.

could anyone help me out

Tx

Suzanne