location of cell

[owl527]

Hi, I am trying to find the cell location of the largest number in a colume. I put: =ROW(LARGE(C4:C75, 1))
it keeps saying my formula contains an error, what function can I use to find out the cell location ? please let me know. Thanks.

[Bob Phillips]

=3+MATCH(MAX(C4:C75),C4:C75,0)

will give the row

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> Hi, I am trying to find the cell location of the largest number in a
> colume. I put: =ROW(LARGE(C4:C75, 1))
> it keeps saying my formula contains an error, what function can I use
> to find out the cell location ? please let me know. Thanks.
>
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[owl527]

Hi, not only do I want to find the largest number, I actually want to find the top 5 numbers.
this is what I put:
=("B"&3+MATCH(MAX(C4:C75),C4:C75,0))
I want to get the value in this cell (not the number itself but the category the number belongs to). it is giving me the cell location, I am unable to display the value in the cell. How do I do that? PLEASE HELP! thanks!!!!

[Bob Phillips]

=INDEX($B$4:$B$75,MATCH(LARGE($C$4:$C$75,ROW(A1)),$C$4:$C$75,0))

and copy down

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> Hi, not only do I want to find the largest number, I actually want to
> find the top 5 numbers.
> this is what I put:
> =("B"&3+MATCH(MAX(C4:C75),C4:C75,0))
> I want to get the value in this cell (not the number itself but the
> category the number belongs to). it is giving me the cell location, I
> am unable to display the value in the cell. How do I do that? PLEASE
> HELP! thanks!!!!
>
>
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[owl527]

it works perfectly fine! thank you....
But, what does ROW(A1) do? I don't understand why you put it in the formula. Please can you explain? thanks.

[Bob Phillips]

That is just to return an index into the large function. ROW(A1) returns 1,
so you get the first largest. When you copy down to the second row, this is
updated to ROW(A2), which returns 2, so you get the second largest.

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> it works perfectly fine! thank you....
> But, what does ROW(A1) do? I don't understand why you put it in the
> formula. Please can you explain? thanks.
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[Aladin Akyurek]

You can obtain a correctly formed Top 5 list with:

1. a pivot table or
2. a formula system.

For the latter, see my post in:

http://tinyurl.com/44ywo

owl527 wrote:
> Hi, not only do I want to find the largest number, I actually want to
> find the top 5 numbers.
> this is what I put:
> =("B"&3+MATCH(MAX(C4:C75),C4:C75,0))
> I want to get the value in this cell (not the number itself but the
> category the number belongs to). it is giving me the cell location, I
> am unable to display the value in the cell. How do I do that? PLEASE
> HELP! thanks!!!!
>
>

[owl527]

Can someone plese help?

Hi, this is similiar to what I am looking for, HOWEVER, I guess mine is a bit more complicated because I have an extra column. e.g.
Column 1 - Countries (HK, US, UK)
Column 2 - Products (Banana, Apple, Orange, Grapes, Carrot, Potato, Tomato)
Column 3 - values (numbers)

I would like to sort the top 5 product Per country.

Sample end result:
HK
Banana 240
Apple 137
Tomato 122
Orange 82
Apple 23

Please help! thanks!!!

[Aladin Akyurek]

You could try the pivot table approach to create Top 5 lists per country.

owl527 wrote:
> Hi, this is similiar to what I am looking for, HOWEVER, I guess mine is
> a bit more complicated because I have an extra column. e.g.
> Column 1 - Countries (HK, US, UK)
> Column 2 - Products (Banana, Apple, Orange, Grapes, Carrot, Potato,
> Tomato)
> Column 3 - values (numbers)
>
> I would like to sort the top 5 product Per country.
>
> Sample end result:
> HK
> Banana 240
> Apple 137
> Tomato 122
> Orange 82
> Apple 23
>
> Please help! thanks!!!
>
>

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[1] The SumProduct function should implicitly coerce the truth values to
their Excel numeric equivalents.
[2] The lookup functions should have an optional argument for the return
value, defaulting to #N/A in its absence.