Return value from cell adjacent to formula result

[timmy180]

Hi,

I'm completely baffled on this one! Any help v.much appreciated!

I'll give you a simplified example of what i would like to do, then an actual example.


I think vlookup is unsuitable as the table will not be sorted in ascending order.



In basic terms I have the following formula =large(D1:D10,1) to return the largest number in the range D1:D10.

What I would like to do is return the corresponding value in row A. So if for example D4 had the largest value, my formula would return the value in A4.



Thats the simple version, however in my workbook I am actually using the following formula to find the largest value based on two critera in other columns;

=LARGE(IF(All_Courses_Stats!$J$6:$J$905="NO",IF(All_Courses_Stats!$C$6:$C$905="Creative Industries",All_Courses_Stats!$AJ$6:$AJ$905,0),0),1)

i.e. column J must = "NO" and column C Must equal "Creative Industries"

I would rather keep it formula orientated for this one - however any VBA suggestions are great also.

Many Thanks for any suggestions!!

Tim

 

[barry houdini]

Hello Tim, welcome to MrExcel

You can do that but it's a little complex. I'm not sure of the column from which you want to return a value, I assume it's column B but you can change that easily, it's the first range in the formula.....

=INDEX(All_Courses_Stats!$B$6:$B$905,MATCH(LARGE(IF(All_Courses_Stats!$J$6:$J$905="NO",IF(All_Courses_Stats!$C$6:$C$905="Creative Industries",All_Courses_Stats!$AJ$6:$AJ$905)),1),IF(All_Courses_Stats!$J$6:$J$905="NO",IF(All_Courses_Stats!$C$6:$C$905="Creative Industries",All_Courses_Stats!$AJ$6:$AJ$905)),0))

confirmed with CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER so that curly braces like { and } appear around the formula in the formula bar

 

[timmy180]

Thanks alot Barry,

That has worked an absolute treat!

You've saved me a really big headache and lots of messing around there!

Tim