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Drawing Log Problem Using Offset And Match Functions

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    Drawing Log Problem Using Offset And Match Functions

    I am a new user and would appreciate some help with the following issue.

    Currently I am building a drawing log for my company that tracks new incoming drawings. Down the first column are listed the drawing titles and across the top are the titles of the changes. Therefore when a new drawing comes in I insert the title across the top and with an "X" the corresponding drawing title (See Attached Document)

    My issue is with the "Latest" column. I want to scan each row for the last "X" and return the corresponding change title. Currently I am using the following formula which works for about 80% of the rows:

    =OFFSET(C3,-(ROW(C3)-1),MATCH("x",D3:BW3))

    Is there an easier and better way to do this? Thank you in advance for your help.
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    Attached Document

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    Document is now attached. Thank you.

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    Instead of using X, could you put 1,2,3,4, etc for the revisions to a particular document. Then the formula would be of the form

    =offset(c2,match(large(myrange,1),myrange,0),-2)

    -2 finds the drawing numbers

    if you have 4 revisions you find the 4 in the whole row (myrange) by matching the largest number in the row (4) with 4 and then up the right number of rows to find rev details

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