Thread: Excluding negative numbers and bringing back lowest postive number

Hi, I hope i am posting this in the right section.

I have a range of cells A2:A85 and this contains positive and negative numbers, I want to create a formula to exclude the negative numbers and bring back in a different cell the lowest postive value? is this possible? I have been trying all day and its driving me insane!!!!!

Excel novice!!!

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Hi,

Use this array formula:

=MIN(IF(A2:A85>0,A2:A85,""))

Enter it using CTRL, SHIFT and ENTER all together.

Done right, it will display like this:

{=MIN(IF(A3:A9>0,A3:A9,""))}

don't enter the curly brackets yourself

Try

=Min(IF(A2:A85>0,A2:A85))

confirmed with CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER not just ENTER

It resolves an array formula...

See here for details... array formulas