This formula should do it...

=ROUNDUP(RANK(A1,$A$1:$A$20, -1)/4, 0)

With your list of 20 numbers in cells A1:A20 place this formula in B1 and
copy it down...
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HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"Marie Bayes" wrote:

I have a list of 20 numbers (all subject to changes) and I need to divide
these into 5 'ranked divisions'. ie, I need to give each number a 'division
number' from 1 to 5, ie, the highest 4 numbers would be division 1, the next
4 highest would be division 2 and so on up to 5. Does anyone know of a way
to do this?


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Marie Bayes