Hi people,
Second post of the day, this one I haven't even tried tackling myself as its way beyond my excel skills.
I have attached a sheet and I was wondering if there is a formula to return the name that contains the latest date. I have arrowed the date range. I have used =min to give me the latest date in the range but is there a way of showing the name?
Any help much appreciated
just to add,
Is there anyway of creating a list of the names in order of date or is this a module/macro issue?
This formula in E25 works for the data that you have:
=INDEX($A:$A,MATCH(MIN(B$12:B$22),$B:$B,0))
but I suspect that is only part of the story if the grey cells might contain other dates, as the MATCH function works on a single column at a time.
Hope this helps.
Pete
Hi Pete,
Yes your correct, any of the cells in the grey area could have a date in them, so the formula would need to search by column and row, we have a spreadsheet at work that does something similar and I have tried to copy the formulas to no avail.
Basically the sheet you are looking at is to record when my staff carry out tea making duties lol. As they work various shifts it will depend on the latest date who carries this duty out on a specific shift. We can populate the cells and work this out manually but I thought a formula may make this a bit quicker.
use this arrasy formula:
=INDEX($A$12:$A$22,MIN(IF($B$12:$AF$22=MAX($B$12:$AF$22),ROW($B$12:$AF$22)-MIN(ROW($B$12:$AF$22))+1)))
But don't use merged cells. they are the spawn of satan and will give you endless problems!!!
Array Formulae are a little different from ordinary formulae in that they MUST be confirmed by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to activate the array, not just ENTER.
You will know the array is active when you see curly brackets { } - or "curly braces" for those of you in the USA, or "flower brackets" for those of you in India - appear around the outside of your formula. If you do not use CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER you will (almost always) get an error message or an incorrect answer. Press F2 on that cell and try again.
Don't type the curly brackets yourself - it won't work...
Glenn
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Works perfectly, thankyou very much.
P.S - As i get a little better at using excel I am realising the merged cells comment
You're welcome and thanks for the Reputation.
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