Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't catch that. I never know how many
codes will be in column B so I changed your formula to be as shown below and
it works great (plus it's a "regular" formula because few people in my area
understand array formulas). Thanks again.

=TEXT(MIN(INDEX(INDIRECT("B2:B"&COUNTA(B2:B65536)+ 1)+0,)),"00000")

"Teethless mama" wrote:

=TEXT(MIN(A1:A5+0),"00000")
=TEXT(MAX(A1:A5+0),"00000")

Those formula are required CTRL+SHIFT+Enter, my formula just press ENTER.



"Todd" wrote:

Your formula did the trick. However, another posting had a slightly more
simplified formula that achieves the same result (see below).

=TEXT(MIN(A1:A5+0),"00000")
=TEXT(MAX(A1:A5+0),"00000")

Thanks so much!

"Teethless mama" wrote:

=TEXT(MIN(INDEX(A1:A5+0,)),"00000")

Just press ENTER


"Todd" wrote:

I have a list of identification codes that are five digit numbers but will
always be treated as text. For example,

'00020
'00015
'00025
'00050
'00035

I need a worksheet function that will tell me the MIN and MAX of these codes
(evaluating the text as numbers). In this example I know that MIN=00015 and
MAX=00050. However, the actual list will contain hundreds or thousands of
codes. I need the solution to be a function. Sorting or filtering to
manually find the MIN/MAX will not work for me. I'm sure I'm not the first
person to encounter this so I am hoping someone can help me. Thanks so much.