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Retrieving the Top 10 Average Entries by displaying a third column
I'm new to Excel programing, so please bear with me.
I have an excel spreadsheet with 3 columns. Column1 Column2 Column3 -------------------------------------- John Doe 5 3 Jane Smith 2 9 Bill Smith 4 2 What I need to do is take the average of Column 2 and 3, find the highest average of the entire list and display Column 1 as the final result. In other words: I need to create a Top 5 List of the people with the highest grade average. I don't care much for displaying the grade, I just need the top 5 names. Can this be done with an excel formula or do I need to write a macro? |
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It could be done with a large and complicated formula, but if you are willing to use a helper
column to calculate the average for each person, the final formula will be simpler. With =AVERAGE(B2:C2) in column D, For the highest: =INDEX(A2:A30,MATCH(MAX(D2:D30),D2:D30,0)) For 2nd, assuming no ties =INDEX(A2:A30,MATCH(LARGE(D2:D30,2),D2:D30,0)) Change the 2 in the LARGE formula to 3, 4, then 5 for the rest of the values. You can hide column D if you wish. On 11 Aug 2003 14:58:33 -0700, (Gil Doron) wrote: I'm new to Excel programing, so please bear with me. I have an excel spreadsheet with 3 columns. Column1 Column2 Column3 -------------------------------------- John Doe 5 3 Jane Smith 2 9 Bill Smith 4 2 What I need to do is take the average of Column 2 and 3, find the highest average of the entire list and display Column 1 as the final result. In other words: I need to create a Top 5 List of the people with the highest grade average. I don't care much for displaying the grade, I just need the top 5 names. Can this be done with an excel formula or do I need to write a macro? |
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Hi Gil,
You can use the AVERAGE formula in column4. For example, cell D1 would be "=AVERAGE(B1:C1)". Then just use the autofilter feature to display the top 5. Hope this helps... Chong Moua -----Original Message----- I'm new to Excel programing, so please bear with me. I have an excel spreadsheet with 3 columns. Column1 Column2 Column3 -------------------------------------- John Doe 5 3 Jane Smith 2 9 Bill Smith 4 2 What I need to do is take the average of Column 2 and 3, find the highest average of the entire list and display Column 1 as the final result. In other words: I need to create a Top 5 List of the people with the highest grade average. I don't care much for displaying the grade, I just need the top 5 names. Can this be done with an excel formula or do I need to write a macro? . |
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-- Regards Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL2K & XLXP ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attitude - A little thing that makes a BIG difference ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Gil Doron" wrote in message om... I'm new to Excel programing, so please bear with me. I have an excel spreadsheet with 3 columns. Column1 Column2 Column3 -------------------------------------- John Doe 5 3 Jane Smith 2 9 Bill Smith 4 2 What I need to do is take the average of Column 2 and 3, find the highest average of the entire list and display Column 1 as the final result. In other words: I need to create a Top 5 List of the people with the highest grade average. I don't care much for displaying the grade, I just need the top 5 names. Can this be done with an excel formula or do I need to write a macro? |
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