I have a column with 24 numbers. I want to rank them. Using the standard
rank function works fine until one of the numbers is a negative.

They way I want it to rank is as follow
Rank Number
1 -360
2 -250
3 75
4 50
5 22
6 9
7 4.5
8 .06
9 0

The higher then negative number, the higher the rank. A negative number is
ranked higher than a positive number. A low positive number is ranked lower
than a high positive number. Does this make sense?????????

Any help wopuld be appreciated
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Tim
Sorry about the duplicate post in another area
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Tim

It woeks fine on my computer
if you put in a -360 and a plus 360 what do you get for a rank?
If you close out of Excel and restart and on a new sheet put you numbers
what do you get.

I think you have at least a corrupted worksheet. Hopefully your Excel
master is not corupted.


"Tim Sullivan" wrote:

I have a column with 24 numbers. I want to rank them. Using the standard
rank function works fine until one of the numbers is a negative.

They way I want it to rank is as follow
Rank Number
1 -360
2 -250
3 75
4 50
5 22
6 9
7 4.5
8 .06
9 0

The higher then negative number, the higher the rank. A negative number is
ranked higher than a positive number. A low positive number is ranked lower
than a high positive number. Does this make sense?????????

Any help wopuld be appreciated
--
Tim
Sorry about the duplicate post in another area
--
Tim

Not corrupted did a new one and still does not give me what I want

They way I want it to rank is as follows.
Rank Number
1 -360
2 -250
3 75
4 50
5 22
6 9
7 4.5
8 .06
9 0

As you can see the most negative number is the highest rank. and once
positve the higher the positive number the higher the rank

--
Tim


"bj" wrote:

It woeks fine on my computer
if you put in a -360 and a plus 360 what do you get for a rank?
If you close out of Excel and restart and on a new sheet put you numbers
what do you get.

I think you have at least a corrupted worksheet. Hopefully your Excel
master is not corupted.


"Tim Sullivan" wrote:

I have a column with 24 numbers. I want to rank them. Using the standard
rank function works fine until one of the numbers is a negative.

They way I want it to rank is as follow
Rank Number
1 -360
2 -250
3 75
4 50
5 22
6 9
7 4.5
8 .06
9 0

The higher then negative number, the higher the rank. A negative number is
ranked higher than a positive number. A low positive number is ranked lower
than a high positive number. Does this make sense?????????

Any help wopuld be appreciated
--
Tim
Sorry about the duplicate post in another area
--
Tim

I tried wwhat you did and got the same result.

One possible solution: You could create a dummy column with the absolute
value of your number (=ABS(XX)), then rank the absolute values. If you don't
want to see the column of absolute values, hide the column.

"Tim Sullivan" wrote:

I have a column with 24 numbers. I want to rank them. Using the standard
rank function works fine until one of the numbers is a negative.

They way I want it to rank is as follow
Rank Number
1 -360
2 -250
3 75
4 50
5 22
6 9
7 4.5
8 .06
9 0

The higher then negative number, the higher the rank. A negative number is
ranked higher than a positive number. A low positive number is ranked lower
than a high positive number. Does this make sense?????????

Any help wopuld be appreciated
--
Tim
Sorry about the duplicate post in another area
--
Tim

The ABS came up. The problem is a -250 should be ranked higher than +250,
using ABS they are equal. The -250 Should be ranked higher than the +250. If
there were a +300 thrown into the mix the ranking needs to be in this order,
-250,300,250
--
Tim


"SVC" wrote:

I tried wwhat you did and got the same result.

One possible solution: You could create a dummy column with the absolute
value of your number (=ABS(XX)), then rank the absolute values. If you don't
want to see the column of absolute values, hide the column.

"Tim Sullivan" wrote:

I have a column with 24 numbers. I want to rank them. Using the standard
rank function works fine until one of the numbers is a negative.

They way I want it to rank is as follow
Rank Number
1 -360
2 -250
3 75
4 50
5 22
6 9
7 4.5
8 .06
9 0

The higher then negative number, the higher the rank. A negative number is
ranked higher than a positive number. A low positive number is ranked lower
than a high positive number. Does this make sense?????????

Any help wopuld be appreciated
--
Tim
Sorry about the duplicate post in another area
--
Tim

Assume A1:A9 is your data, try this:

B1 =
RANK(A1,A$1:A$9,1)+IF(A1=0,2*(COUNTIF(A$1:A$9,"0 ")-RANK(A1,A$1:A$9,1)),0)


Hope it helps.




Tim Sullivan Wrote:
I have a column with 24 numbers. I want to rank them. Using the
standard
rank function works fine until one of the numbers is a negative.

They way I want it to rank is as follow
Rank Number
1 -360
2 -250
3 75
4 50
5 22
6 9
7 4.5
8 .06
9 0

The higher then negative number, the higher the rank. A negative
number is
ranked higher than a positive number. A low positive number is ranked
lower
than a high positive number. Does this make sense?????????

Any help wopuld be appreciated
--
Tim
Sorry about the duplicate post in another area
--
Tim


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Assuming that A1:A19 contains your numbers, try...

B1, copied down:

=IF(A1=0,RANK(A1,$A$1:$A$9)+COUNTIF($A$1:$A$9,"<0 "),RANK(A1,$A$1:$A$9,1)
)

Hope this helps!

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Tim Sullivan wrote:

I have a column with 24 numbers. I want to rank them. Using the standard
rank function works fine until one of the numbers is a negative.

They way I want it to rank is as follow
Rank Number
1 -360
2 -250
3 75
4 50
5 22
6 9
7 4.5
8 .06
9 0

The higher then negative number, the higher the rank. A negative number is
ranked higher than a positive number. A low positive number is ranked lower
than a high positive number. Does this make sense?????????

Any help wopuld be appreciated
--
Tim
Sorry about the duplicate post in another area

Is this the way you want it to rank or the way it is ranking?

I don't know what is happening, but a work around is to try a helper column
with
=A1-Min(A:A)
copy down to the end of the data and rank the helper column.

"Tim Sullivan" wrote:

Not corrupted did a new one and still does not give me what I want

They way I want it to rank is as follows.
Rank Number
1 -360
2 -250
3 75
4 50
5 22
6 9
7 4.5
8 .06
9 0

As you can see the most negative number is the highest rank. and once
positve the higher the positive number the higher the rank

--
Tim


"bj" wrote:

It woeks fine on my computer
if you put in a -360 and a plus 360 what do you get for a rank?
If you close out of Excel and restart and on a new sheet put you numbers
what do you get.

I think you have at least a corrupted worksheet. Hopefully your Excel
master is not corupted.


"Tim Sullivan" wrote:

I have a column with 24 numbers. I want to rank them. Using the standard
rank function works fine until one of the numbers is a negative.

They way I want it to rank is as follow
Rank Number
1 -360
2 -250
3 75
4 50
5 22
6 9
7 4.5
8 .06
9 0

The higher then negative number, the higher the rank. A negative number is
ranked higher than a positive number. A low positive number is ranked lower
than a high positive number. Does this make sense?????????

Any help wopuld be appreciated
--
Tim
Sorry about the duplicate post in another area
--
Tim