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    Return highest 4 values (MAX?)

    Hi all,

    I've got a matrix of data which contains various currency values users are enterring. I get this data from Sharepoint using an external query, so it can change when I refresh my dataset.

    What I want to do is return the highest 4 values. I can use MAX (=MAX(C2:F13)) to return the highest value, but can't think of how I'll get the top 4. Seeing as the 4 highest values can be in any column, I can't check the MAX of each column (what if the highest 2 are both in C?) and compare.

    Any thoughts on how I might acheive this?

    Thanks for your help,
    Bob

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    Take a look at the LARGE() function.
    =LARGE(C2:F13,1) to get the max
    =LARGE(C2:F13,2) to get the second etc...

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    Perfect, thanks for that!

    I'd have thought they might put that as a "See Also" in the help function for MAX.

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