Using MAX (or similar) over multiple worksheets

cidgreen

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Hello there,

I am trying to do what I think is a simple task, but I'm struggling considerably.

I have a file with five worksheets in it. The first four sheets each contain three columns of numbers.

I need to find the maximum number in the second column of all the sheets and have it outputted in the fifth sheet.

In other words, if the biggest number in column B of any of the four sheets is 20, I need 20 to appear in a cell in the fifth sheet.

Can anyone tell me how to do this? This is a simple example so if someone could show me how to do this I would be able to tailor it to my (much larger) sheets of stuff.

Any help, as always, will be very gratefully received.

Thanks in advance,
Chris.
 

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The Roman numeral for 40 is XL. Bill "MrExcel" Jelen's 40th book was called MrExcel XL.
If you do an array formula, it should give you what you are trying to accomplish. {=max(Sheet1range,sheet2range....)} will return the max value in your selected ranges.
 
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I sometimes marvel at my own idiocy - it was one of the things I tried first but I had the ranges as B:B instead of B1:B200 and so on.

If you don't mind me asking Aaron (and anyone else reading it), can you think of a way that I could then reference back into the sheet that the max number is in, and return the value in Column A next to it?

The max number is a number of goals scored and the player's names are in the column A's - is there a way to find out, from the max number, exactly which player has the most goals in the four sheets?

And, of course, thanks very much indeed for your help (and sorry for asking such a feeble question first off...)

Cheers,
Chris.
 
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On 2002-11-05 11:15, cidgreen wrote:
Hello there,

I am trying to do what I think is a simple task, but I'm struggling considerably.

I have a file with five worksheets in it. The first four sheets each contain three columns of numbers.

I need to find the maximum number in the second column of all the sheets and have it outputted in the fifth sheet.

In other words, if the biggest number in column B of any of the four sheets is 20, I need 20 to appear in a cell in the fifth sheet.

Can anyone tell me how to do this? This is a simple example so if someone could show me how to do this I would be able to tailor it to my (much larger) sheets of stuff.

Any help, as always, will be very gratefully received.

Thanks in advance,
Chris.

=MAX(Sheet2:Sheet5!B:B)

which determines the highest number among the numbers in column B of each sheet from Sheet2 to Sheet5.
 
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