MIN and MAX

[perrin]

I have a spreadsheet that tells me the highest and lowest expenses for
each month using the MIN and MAX formulas but how do I get it to tell
the month that the highest and lowest expenses occured. Right now it
just give the dollar amounts for each. Waht would the forlumla be to
do
that right now in cell B25 I have =MAX(B21:M21) and in B26 I have
=MIN(B21:M21) my months are listed in cells B2 through M2. Any Ideas
on
how to display the month with the amount. Thanks

 

[plettieri]

Did you try looking at the lookup techniques?

ie vlookup or hlookup?

 

[PaddyD]

right now in cell B25 I have =MAX(B21:M21) and in B26 I have
=MIN(B21:M21) my months are listed in cells B2 through M2. Any Ideas
on
how to display the month with the amount. Thanks

Try:
=INDEX(B2:M2,1,MATCH(MAX(B21:M21),B21:M21,0))

for the max,

=INDEX(B2:M2,1,MATCH(MIN(B21:M21),B21:M21,0))

for the min.

You could replace the min / max calculations with cell references if you've already got the values calculated.

Note - no attempt has been made to deal with duplicate instances of the max / min values - what should happen in such cases?

Paddy
This message was edited by PaddyD on 2002-09-22 17:59