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Default First, Last occurance of date in column

On Nov 3, 11:12*am, JumboShrimps wrote:
Have ONE column of a little more then 1,000 dates, each in a different
cell.
Column is NOT in date order, nor can it be sorted.
Need to to know the first CELL LOCATION of a date,
and then the last CELL LOCATION of a date all in ONE (same) column.
Average 100 cells between first cell location of date and last cell
location.

Thanx.


I'll use the following, you most likely have them elsewhere.
- Dates in Column A starting in A5.
- Date being looked for in cell A1.

First row:
A2: =MIN(IF(A5:A1004=A1,ROW(A5:A1004),"")) entered with CTRL+SHIFT
+ENTER.

Last row:
A3: =MAX(IF(A5:A1004=A1,ROW(A5:A1004),"")) entered with CTRL+SHIFT
+ENTER.

If you need an actual cell location, you can go:
B2: =ADDRESS(A2,COLUMN(A5))
B3: =ADDRESS(A3,COLUMN(A5))

S