I'm working on a spreadsheet that scores on five different categories and
weighing them differently. I've figured out the scoring part and the
weighing part but now I'd like to have Excel automatically rank the scores
by putting a 1, 2, 3 in a cell beside the individual's name. Can this be
done?

Thanks,

Tom

So assuming you have something like:


Name Cat1 Cat2 Cat3 Cat4 Cat5 Weight

You want to then add another column for Rank? If so, no problem. Add the
column header Rank, then for each row, write the formula:

=Rank(my_weight_cell,weight_range)

Replace "my_weight_cell" with the cell weight value for that person.
Replace the "weight_range" with the range of cells in the Weight column.
NOTE: If you make the weight_range absolute (e.g. $E$2:$E$10 - the $ tells
Excel not to change the row/column when you copy the formula) then you can
write the formula for the first row and copy it to all the other rows.

"Charter" wrote:

I'm working on a spreadsheet that scores on five different categories and
weighing them differently. I've figured out the scoring part and the
weighing part but now I'd like to have Excel automatically rank the scores
by putting a 1, 2, 3 in a cell beside the individual's name. Can this be
done?

Thanks,

Tom

On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 11:36:39 -0600, "Charter"
wrote:

I'm working on a spreadsheet that scores on five different categories and
weighing them differently. I've figured out the scoring part and the
weighing part but now I'd like to have Excel automatically rank the scores
by putting a 1, 2, 3 in a cell beside the individual's name. Can this be
done?

Thanks,

Tom

Assuming your scores are in cells A1 to A10.
Try this formula in cell B1:

=RANK(A1,A$1:A$10)

Copy it down to B10.
(The 10 should be changed to fit the number of rows in your score
column)

Hope this helps / Lars-Åke