i was wrong in my formula. A12 in RANK should be A1. But your formula is
much more simple. i think it might be better to use COUNTIF(ref, number)/2
as Correction factor for tied ranks instead of [COUNT(ref) + 1 -
RANK(number, ref, 0) - RANK(number, ref, 1)]/2 in the help

Regards
keiji

"Bernd P" wrote in message
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=RANK(A1,A$1:A$12,1)+(COUNTIF(A$1:A$12,A1)-1)/2

Regards,
Bernd