T Valko's answer in "locate first value greater than" solves the issue. His
answer is

"Another one:

=INDEX(B1:F1,MATCH(TRUE,INDEX(B2:F20,0),0))

Format as Date

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP"


"crazyquasar" wrote:

I have a huge unsorted list of numbers (more than 100,000). I want to locate
the first instance of a number greater than the first number in this list.
any help will be greatly appreciated.

thank you,