Forum Discussion
CELL Function with a MIN formula as a reference
From what I read about CELL, it won't do what you want to do. However, assuming your MIN is referring to a range of cells (either a column or a row), something like this can work to find--in this case--the row within the designated array.
=MATCH(MIN(F7:F11),F7:F11,0)
And with that you could index other things from the same row in a two-dimensional array. (Assumption: only one cell in the full array contains that MIN value....
- Unfortunately, that assumption is incorrect, and the MIN value occurs more than once. Thanks for the suggestion though.
Yes...my first reply was clearly crossing the exchange you had with another similar reply. Reading your MIN formula--you said it was "huge" but that was an understatement!!!!!!!!--makes me wonder how the data are arrayed in the first place, and whether or not there's a way to reorganize it.
That aside, are you familiar with the relatively new FILTER function? Without knowing how your data are arrayed, this may totally miss the mark, but perhaps FILTER, in conjunction with the MIN function could at least find the row(s) that contain that MIN value.
Here's a link to a good resource of FILTER.
- It's organized in a way that one could paste up to 30 vendor lists into one sheet. Each one is separated so we can distinguish which vendor the list is from. I'm just surprised there isn't an obvious way to reference the data of a MIN formula beside matching.
I can't figure out the FILTER function would give me the row or column the minimum value is found.
