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find a sequence
I guess my question is are you really wanting the difference of the highest
value minus the lowest value? What if there are intermediary values? In your example, you give 3 values of Fred, 67, 23, and 10, and state a difference of 57. This is actually the high minus the low, which can be portrayed easily in the array** formula of: =MAX(IF(A$1:A$100=C12,B$1:B$100))-MIN(IF($A$1:$A$100=C12,$B$1:$B$100)) Where C12 is who you are looking for the difference for (such as Fred). However, if you want the overall difference of all the numbers, then in your example, it would be 114 for Fred, as 67-23=44, 67-10=57, 23-10=13, and subsequently 44+57+13 = 114 -- John C "LiAD" wrote: I want to get excel to look through a series of numbers and words, find the words that match, calculate the difference between the two numbers associated with these words and then sum all of the differences from the list, e.g. fred 10 bill 21 ben 34 bob 21 fred 23 bill 23 fred 67 I want excel to tell me the sum of differences for fred as 57, bill as 2 and the rest all 0. I have about 200 lines to sort with about 100 combinations of words. Any ideas much appreciated. Thanks |
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