MAXIF with wild card

blueston

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I have just recently learnt from this forum how to do a MAXIF function. But I have a twisted variation I would like to do. I will make up different data than what I am working on so it will be more interesting. So suppose I have the following-

Bob Smith 47
Mary Smith 32
Doug Smith 59
Mary Sullivan 19
Mike Jones 26
Katie Jones 22
John Doe 12
Jay Doe 16
Johnny Doe 8
Jill Doe 11

I want to determine the max age per family. So I know you can do MAX(IF(A2:A100="Bob Smith",B2:B100)) or the same except substiute a cell number (ex. E1 with the text Bob Smith), but is it possible to do MAX with a wildcard like MAX(IF(A2:A100="*Smith",B2:B100). When I try that and use CSE it returns zero.

Are there any Geniuses out there that can answer than one?

Thanks
 

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Welcome to the board!

Try:

=MAX(IF(ISNUMBER(FIND("Smith",A1:A10)),B1:B10))

Entered with Ctrl + shift + enter.
 
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Is it possible to do this with multiple conditions to return the max age? Maybe there is a way to implement wildcards using the IFS function instead of IF. For instance if you want to search for the first and last name (lets assume there are people with the same first and last name... using it for something else)
 
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Have a look at the MAXIFS function.
Failing that I would suggest starting a new thread.
 
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