Auto Populate the Nth Large Value

Dear Expert,

I need to find the Top nth value from a set of data by combining with 2 criteria.

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Originally Posted by Glenn Kennedy

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This is a first step. Please take a look at it.

In D9, copied down:
=IF(ROWS($1:1)<=D$5,ROWS($1:1),"")

In E9, an array formula, copied across and down:

Formula:

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Array Formulae are a little different from ordinary formulae in that they MUST be confirmed in the FIRST CELL ONLY by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to activate the array, not just ENTER. After that, the array can be dragged down as normal, to cover the desired range.

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...

How likely is it that there will be ties for the total amount? If this is a possibility, I will need to do a bit more work on this.

I did the extra bit. Take a look at rows 2&3 of MASTER of ORIGINAL.xlsx. Ihave introduced a tie. Now look at Rows 9 & 10 of working. It gives the incorrect answer for one of the tied results. Now look at MODIFIED.xlsx. the same tie is there, but now the correct result is returned.

Array formula in E9 is now:

Formula:

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Originally Posted by Glenn Kennedy

I did the extra bit. Take a look at rows 2&3 of MASTER of ORIGINAL.xlsx. Ihave introduced a tie. Now look at Rows 9 & 10 of working. It gives the incorrect answer for one of the tied results. Now look at MODIFIED.xlsx. the same tie is there, but now the correct result is returned.

Array formula in E9 is now:

Formula:

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Thanks Expert for the solution. The result is coming perfectly. If you have some time can you please share on the formula logic on getting the result. I'm sorry if i'm wasting your time.

=IFERROR(INDEX(Master!A$2:A$8000,- tells Excel where to look for the results

MATCH( - where there is a match between

LARGE( - the largest value matching BOTH of the criteria

IF(IF($D$3="All",TRUE,Master!$D$2:$D$8000=Working!$D$3), first criterion : company name = selected name. This bit returns TRUE or FALSE. An extra term was added to retun TRUE if "All" was selected

IF(IF($D$4="All",TRUE,Master!$E$2:$E$8000=$D$4), - second criterion - similar to first criterion

Master!$P$2:$P$8000+ROW(Master!$P$2:$P$8000)/10^10)), return the largest value... but add on a very small number (the row number divided by 10 to the power of 10) to make each total completely unique.

Working!$D9), when this is 1, it returns the first largest, 2 it returns the second largest, etc.

So at this point we have say....40,000.000013 (made up number) being the nth largest value. we now need to find out what row it's on. So we need to match it with the column of totals... which also need to have the tiny amount added on.

Master!$P$2:$P$8000+ROW(Master!$P$2:$P$8000)/10^10,0)),"") - so that's what happens here

That's basically it.

Thanks for your guidance. Much appreciated. I'm marking this thread as solved