I am trying to find the lowest bid in a range of bids and in an adjacent
cell put the NAME of the bidder in that cell. I can find the low
bidder using the min function but the lookup functions I'm trying to
use only work if the range is sorted. I don't have this luxury because
of the size of the date. Is there a fix for this?

Bidder Joe 1 / Joe 2 / Joe 3 Low Bid / Low Bidder
Bid 36 / 25 / 45 25 / Joe2


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Jkulak,

With bidders in row 1, and bid in row 2:

Lowest Bid:
=MIN(2:2)

Lowest Bidder:
=INDEX(1:1,MATCH(MIN(2:2),2:2,FALSE))

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


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I am trying to find the lowest bid in a range of bids and in an adjacent
cell put the NAME of the bidder in that cell. I can find the low
bidder using the min function but the lookup functions I'm trying to
use only work if the range is sorted. I don't have this luxury because
of the size of the date. Is there a fix for this?

Bidder Joe 1 / Joe 2 / Joe 3 Low Bid / Low Bidder
Bid 36 / 25 / 45 25 / Joe2


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Bernie, thank you, it's working beautifully. J


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