Also of interest:

http://tinyurl.com/aft5l

for it looks like you want to extract a Top N (Top 2) list.

Garethm1976 wrote:
What i am trying to do is find the maximum value from a list of ammounts,
then from that maximum value (which i need in one cell as a value) i need to
find who that max figure relates to from a list of names ie.
Sheet2
A B
1 fred 1.00
2 gareth 2.00
3 laura 3.00
Sheet3
A B
1 =max('sheet2'!B1:B3) =3.00 this cell needs to display
name ie laura

god what a nightmare, also from this i need to do the same with
=large('sheet2'!B1:B2,2)

Please can someone help, thanks