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I was looking through a column of data and wanted a formula which would
return the cell reference, i tried CELL("row",min(A:A)) but this
yeilded an error, help greatly appreciated


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Try this, you will get row number:

=MATCH(MIN(A:A),A:A,0)

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return the cell reference, i tried CELL("row",min(A:A)) but this
yeilded an error, help greatly appreciated


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use ADDRESS function

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return the cell reference, i tried CELL("row",min(A:A)) but this
yeilded an error, help greatly appreciated


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Default returning absolute cell refs

Enter the below formula in say B1:

=ADDRESS(MATCH((MIN(A:A)),A:A,0),1) ' the last 1 indicates Column 1 (A)

It will produce the address of the Smallest
Number you have in Column A

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