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    Earliest and latest years based upon name of a person

    Hello all

    I have a spreadsheet with people and years.

    Column A is the year
    Column B is the name of the person
    Column C is where I would like the earliest year that person appears in the spreadsheet
    Column D is where I would like the latest year that person appears in the spreadsheet

    (There are other columns which aren't relevant to this query)

    For example
    John Smith could be in the spreadsheet 50 times from 1950 to 2000 - I would like C to show 1950 and D 2000
    Jane Dow could be in the spreadsheet 5 times from 2010 to 2015 - I would like C to show 2010 and D 2015

    Can you help?

    Thank you in advance.

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    Re: Earliest and latest years based upon name of a person

    Welcome to the forum.

    This calls for a MAXIFS or MAX(IF(...)), depending on which version of Excel you have. Please tell us and add it to your forum profile.
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    Re: Earliest and latest years based upon name of a person

    Just search for minif and maxif

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    Re: Earliest and latest years based upon name of a person

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    I can't work out how I get it to change per person. When I use Max and Min it defaults to the earliest and latest dates regardless of each person.

    I know I am missing something obvious. There are approx 1000 people in there some with quite a number of years, others with just one.

    Thank you.

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    Re: Earliest and latest years based upon name of a person

    MINIFS and MAXIFS allow you to specify criteria in the same way as SUMIFS and COUNTIFS. Give it a go.

    https://support.office.com/en-gb/art...b-9b6376b28883

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    Re: Earliest and latest years based upon name of a person

    Sorry they seem to suggest I need to have another column with the names in so it can cross reference, but I don't want to do that.

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    Re: Earliest and latest years based upon name of a person

    No, you refer to columns A and B.

    Something like this:

    =MAXIFS(A2:A500,B2:B500,B2)

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