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I'm looking for a function that will return the value of the first non-blank
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Try...

=INDEX(A2:A100,MATCH(TRUE,A2:A100<"",0))

....confirmed with CONTROL+SHIFT+ENTER.

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Try this entered normally if TEXT
=INDEX(A2:A100,MATCH("*",A2:A100,0),0)

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"Don Guillett" wrote...
Try this entered normally if TEXT
=INDEX(A2:A100,MATCH("*",A2:A100,0),0)

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But if not text or not necessarily text, the following array formula
would find it.

=INDEX(A2:A100,MATCH(FALSE,ISBLANK(A2:A100),0))

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