OK, I got it to work using: =MIN(IF(D3:N3<"",D$2:N$2)). Thanks for the
assistance!

"Blueglass" wrote:

OK, I see what's happening. You're formula tests for max and min values and
returns the associated date.

What I really need is to find the first value in the range and return that
date and the last value in the range and return that date. When dealing with
hours, I'll have the start date of the work and the end date of the work.

Can we do that?


"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

Works fine for me when I test it using your example, you might have text is
some of the values and your dates are very ambiguous

Excel can only accept dates that includes year, month and day if you omit
one it will put whatever it considers a date so if you type in 05/09 today
Excel will guess that you are trying to type 05/09/2007 even though you did
not mean that


Anyway I just tested it and using my formula and the dates in your example
it returned 12/08 for MAX and 03/09 for MIN


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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom


"Blueglass" wrote in message
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Hello Peo,
Thanks for the information. I tried the formulas below, but couldn't
get
it work in all cases. Had a problem with this one:

Dates: 11/08 12/08 1/09 2/09 3/09 4/09 5/09 06/09
Values: 7 9 5 6 3 4 10 11
Returns Min = 11/08 and Max = 3/09



"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

For max


=INDEX(A1:E1,MATCH(MAX(A2:E2),A2:E2,0))


for min


=INDEX(A1:E1,MATCH(MIN(A2:E2),A2:E2,0))

where I assume the dates are in A1:E1 and the values in A2:E2


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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom





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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom


"Blueglass" wrote in message
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Hello Peo,
I'm working with the formula below, but can't figure it out.

I've got a row of dates and values:

10/07 11/07 12/07 01/08 02/08
20 20

And would like to test the second row for the existence of data and
return the Max date in one column and the Min dates in another column.
Is
that possible?
Thank you.



"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

Well that formula is not needed and it doesn't make any sense. You
seem
to
want 2 criteria, no blank dates since they would be dates over 100
years
ago
and a criteria in another range,

=MIN(IF(Range1="x",IF(Date_Range<"",Date_Range)))

will return the earliest date where Range1 equals x, adapt to fit your
requirements and this time enter the formula with ctrl + shift & enter
and
finally make sure the cell with this formula is formatted as date or
you
will get the serial number


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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom



"Gwynneth" wrote in message
...
Hi Bernard and thank you for responding. I found a formula
yesterday
which
enabled me to find the latest/max date within a range and subject to
a
criteria. This formula was: =sumproduct(MAX(--(A:A=A1)*B:B)). So
I
thought
I could use this to find the first date/min. However, because there
are
blanks agains some criteria these are picked up as the minimum
values.

I am therefore hoping there is something I can do the the sumproduct
formula
above that will skip the blanks and give the the first date against
a
specifed criteria with multiple dates.

If this is not enough info. I will send you an example spreadsheet
if
that
pos.

Thanks again
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Gwynneth


"Bernard Liengme" wrote:

This finds the minimum value in the A range subject to the
corresponding
B
value being "a". But if there are two cases you get twice the
answer.
=SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:A16=MIN(A1:A16)),--(B1:B16="a"))

Can you please expand on your problem. You want to find the minimum
value
of
PO1 with the proviso that the date in also in the range Created1?
With
named
ranges we cannot see the whole picture. For example what is the
size
of
each
range?

best wishes
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Bernard V Liengme
Microsoft Excel MVP
www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme
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"Gwynneth" wrote in message
...
I am trying to find the minimum date in a range, which contains
blanks.
subject to a criteria. As the range contains blanks, these are
currently
picked up as the min date and display 00-Jan-00.

Is there a way of using sumproduct and excluding/ignoring blank
cells?

PO1 is my range for criteria and Created1 is my range on the
dates I
am
using in the following formula

=Sumproduct(MIN(--(PO1=A2)*Created1))

Gwynneth

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Gwynneth