Your formula works fine for me whether the dates are Excel dates or text
dates. Is your data all in column A? That would generate the #VALUE error you
describe. If that is the case, use Data Text to Columns to split the data
into four columns so the dates are alone in column A.

Hope this helps,

Hutch

"CecesWorking" wrote:

Hello -

I have a data set similar to below

Date Field 1 Field 2 Field 3
1/1/09 x x o
1/5/09 o x x
1/14/09 o o x

I also have an array formula in a separate cell that looks for the row with
the closest match to today's date and is supposed to return the row number
that is the closest match. The formula is:
=MATCH(MIN(ABS(A1:A29-TODAY())),ABS(A1:A29-TODAY()),0)

I keep getting the following error in the array formula: #VALUE!

Is it because the format of the date in column A? I am not sure what I'm
doing wrong.

Any help would greatly be appreciated.

Thanks for your time and effort.