even simpler, I misread your post and believed there were numbers in the
other cells

=LOOKUP(2,1/(A1:A4<""),A1:A4)

Mike

"Mike H" wrote:

Art,

Try this

=LOOKUP(2,1/(ISTEXT(A1:A4)),A1:A4)

Mike

"Art" wrote:

_________A
1_________
2_________
3_______Hello
4_________
5_______Hello

I have a single column range (A1:A4). One and only one of the cells contains
a text entry (cell A3 in this example). I want to enter a formula into A5
that will return this text entry.

Thanks,
Art