Suppose in cell Sheet1 B1 you have the country . The below formula will
return the highest date.. Copy the formula and format the cell to date...

=SUMPRODUCT(MAX(('Sal&Pmt'!H1:H100=C1)*('Sal&Pmt'! F1:F100)))


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"Tufail" wrote:

oh sorry ! i try again here :

"Sal&Pmt" Sheet
Col_F Col_H
01-Jan-2009 Japan
02-Jan-2009 Singapore
03-Jan-2009 Japan
20-Feb-2009 Singapore

Sheet1
Col_B Col_C (formula cell)
Japan here actually i need max date of above sheet as a 03-Jan-2009
Singapore here actually i need max date of above sheet as a 20-Feb-2009
USA
UK

Sorry in advance if i still couldn't explained well :(
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"Francis" wrote:

am not following you very well,
would you post a sample on how both sheets look like
and what you want to achieve?
It help us not to guess what you are after.
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Hope this is helpful

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Thank You

cheers, francis

Am not a greek but an ordinary user trying to assist another



"Tufail" wrote:

thanks for your quick post, but actually what i want, in Sal&Pmt list
H7:H9996" i have country name (Japan USA etc.etc) same i have in Sheet1 so i
want B5~ equal same country name max date from Sal&Pmt list, hope i could
explain well, that's why i am using =B5 instid of , B5.


Jacob Skaria" wrote:

If you are trying to get the maximum from f7:f9996, h7:h996 and B5 below is
the formula...

=IF($B5="","",MAX('Sal&Pmt'!F7:F9996,'Sal&Pmt'!H7: H9996,$B5))

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"Tufail" wrote:

hello all,
i am trying to get max date in "Sheet1" from sheet "Sal&Pmt" but #VALUE!
erroe is coming out, any proper way ?

=IF($B5="","",MAX('Sal&Pmt'!F7:F9996,'Sal&Pmt'!H7: H9996)) << upto here
showing, but when i am trying to match data with =$B5 (Sheet1) then problam
is start.

=IF($B5="","",MAX('Sal&Pmt'!F7:F9996,'Sal&Pmt'!H7: H9996=$B5))