look for text not using vlookup and sum if
Dear Helpers,
Thank you very much for your advice and I have solved my problem.
Fanny
"T. Valko" wrote:
or shorten the other suggestion to
=INDEX(A2:A10,MATCH(MAX(B2:B10),B2:B10))
or try this instead:
=LOOKUP(MAX(B2:B9),B2:B9,A2:A9)
And both of those will fail if the data was like this:
Name Score
Anna 120
Peter 70
Sam 50
It's just "dumb luck" that they work on the sample as posted.
Quality trumps quantity.
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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP
"Shane Devenshire" wrote in message
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Hi,
If you have titles in the top row then change GS's to
=OFFSET(A1,MATCH(MAX(B:B),B:B,)-1,0)
or shorten the other suggestion to
=INDEX(A2:A10,MATCH(MAX(B2:B10),B2:B10))
or try this instead:
=LOOKUP(MAX(B2:B9),B2:B9,A2:A9)
If you have a tie for the MAX these formula will give different results.
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Cheers,
Shane Devenshire
"Fanny" wrote:
Dear Helpers,
I have a long listing below for checking
Name Score
Peter 70
Anna 120
Sam 50
.......
I use Max to find the highest score is 120 and I want to use the highest
score to look for the name who gets the highest score.
How to do so,
thanks a lot for your help.
Fanny
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