hi..

Datas a

A B C D E
1 AA08 AA07 AA09 AA30
2

I want to display the highest value(AA30) in E1. Any formula for this?
Thanks.

Hi there,

You might want to concider using the vlookup formula combined with the max
in this one.

=VLOOKUP(MAX(range, range_including_answer_col, col_ref,0))

Put this formula in cell AA30

Hope it helps you
--

Thank you and Regards

Garreth Lombard


"formula" wrote:

hi..

Datas a

A B C D E
1 AA08 AA07 AA09 AA30
2

I want to display the highest value(AA30) in E1. Any formula for this?
Thanks.

??? Garreth, you lost me. Maybe I'm missing something and you could explain
with sample entries in the VLOOKUP()?

"Garreth Lombard" wrote:

Hi there,

You might want to concider using the vlookup formula combined with the max
in this one.

=VLOOKUP(MAX(range, range_including_answer_col, col_ref,0))

Put this formula in cell AA30

Hope it helps you
--

Thank you and Regards

Garreth Lombard


"formula" wrote:

hi..

Datas a

A B C D E
1 AA08 AA07 AA09 AA30
2

I want to display the highest value(AA30) in E1. Any formula for this?
Thanks.

It depends on what the numeric portion of the string is.

This array formula** will work on your posted sample data.

=INDEX(A1:D1,MATCH(TRUE,COUNTIF(A1:D1,""&A1:D1)=0 ,0))

** array formulas need to be entered using the key combination of
CTRL,SHIFT,ENTER (not just ENTER). Hold down both the CTRL key and the SHIFT
key then hit ENTER.

However, if this was your data:

AA100
AA08
AA07
AA30

The formula would still evaluate AA30 as being the "max" value in the range.
If you want to see how Excel evaluates this just sort the data in ascending
order and you'll get:

AA07
AA08
AA100
AA30

If you only want to evaluate the numeric portion of the string like this:

7
8
30
100

Then it get's kind of complicated!

--
Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"formula" wrote in message
...
hi..

Datas a

A B C D E
1 AA08 AA07 AA09 AA30
2

I want to display the highest value(AA30) in E1. Any formula for this?
Thanks.

i forgot something.. let's say datas a

A B C D E F G
1 AA08 AA18 AB03 AA30 AB15 AC01
2



It's determining highest alpha numeric values. there are only four
characters per value as "AA01".


Value to be displayed in G1 must be the highest alpha numeric which is AC01.
Pls advise.

Thanks.


"T. Valko" wrote:

It depends on what the numeric portion of the string is.

This array formula** will work on your posted sample data.

=INDEX(A1:D1,MATCH(TRUE,COUNTIF(A1:D1,""&A1:D1)=0 ,0))

** array formulas need to be entered using the key combination of
CTRL,SHIFT,ENTER (not just ENTER). Hold down both the CTRL key and the SHIFT
key then hit ENTER.

However, if this was your data:

AA100
AA08
AA07
AA30

The formula would still evaluate AA30 as being the "max" value in the range.
If you want to see how Excel evaluates this just sort the data in ascending
order and you'll get:

AA07
AA08
AA100
AA30

If you only want to evaluate the numeric portion of the string like this:

7
8
30
100

Then it get's kind of complicated!

--
Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"formula" wrote in message
...
hi..

Datas a

A B C D E
1 AA08 AA07 AA09 AA30
2

I want to display the highest value(AA30) in E1. Any formula for this?
Thanks.




.

One macro solution

Sub maxnumberintextcells()
myrow = 11 ' change to your row
fc = 1 'column A
lc = Cells(myrow, Columns.Count).End(xlToLeft).Column

MMax = 0
For i = fc To lc
For j = 1 To Len(Cells(myrow, i))
If IsNumeric(Mid(Cells(myrow, i), j)) Then
x = Mid(Cells(myrow, i), j, 9999)
Exit For
End If
Next j
If x MMax Then MMax = x
Next i
MsgBox MMax
End Sub

--
Don Guillett
Microsoft MVP Excel
SalesAid Software

"formula" wrote in message
...
hi..

Datas a

A B C D E
1 AA08 AA07 AA09 AA30
2

I want to display the highest value(AA30) in E1. Any formula for this?
Thanks.

i forgot something.. let's say datas a

A B C D E F G
1 AA08 AA18 AB03 AA30 AB15 AC01
2



It's determining highest alpha numeric values.

Value to be displayed in G1 must be the highest alpha numeric which is AC01.

Pls advise.

Thanks.

Did you try my macro

--
Don Guillett
Microsoft MVP Excel
SalesAid Software

"formula" wrote in message
...

i forgot something.. let's say datas a

A B C D E F G
1 AA08 AA18 AB03 AA30 AB15 AC01
2



It's determining highest alpha numeric values.

Value to be displayed in G1 must be the highest alpha numeric which is
AC01.

Pls advise.

Thanks.