highest value between rows

[formula]

hi..

Datas are:

A B C D E
1 AA08 AA07 AA09 AA30
2

I want to display the highest value(AA30) in E1. Any formula for this?
Thanks.

 

[Garreth Lombard]

Hi there,

You might want to concider using the vlookup formula combined with the max
in this one.

=VLOOKUP(MAX(range, range_including_answer_col, col_ref,0))

Put this formula in cell AA30

Hope it helps you

 

[JLatham]

??? Garreth, you lost me. Maybe I'm missing something and you could explain
with sample entries in the VLOOKUP()?

 

[T. Valko]

It depends on what the numeric portion of the string is.

This array formula** will work on your posted sample data.

=INDEX(A11,MATCH(TRUE,COUNTIF(A11,">"&A11)=0,0))

** array formulas need to be entered using the key combination of
CTRL,SHIFT,ENTER (not just ENTER). Hold down both the CTRL key and the SHIFT
key then hit ENTER.

However, if this was your data:

AA100
AA08
AA07
AA30

The formula would still evaluate AA30 as being the "max" value in the range.
If you want to see how Excel evaluates this just sort the data in ascending
order and you'll get:

AA07
AA08
AA100
AA30

If you only want to evaluate the numeric portion of the string like this:

7
8
30
100

Then it get's kind of complicated!

 

[Don Guillett]

One macro solution

Sub maxnumberintextcells()
myrow = 11 ' change to your row
fc = 1 'column A
lc = Cells(myrow, Columns.Count).End(xlToLeft).Column

MMax = 0
For i = fc To lc
For j = 1 To Len(Cells(myrow, i))
If IsNumeric(Mid(Cells(myrow, i), j)) Then
x = Mid(Cells(myrow, i), j, 9999)
Exit For
End If
Next j
If x > MMax Then MMax = x
Next i
MsgBox MMax
End Sub

 

[formula]

i forgot something.. let's say datas are:

A B C D E F G
1 AA08 AA18 AB03 AA30 AB15 AC01
2



It's determining highest alpha numeric values.

Value to be displayed in G1 must be the highest alpha numeric which is AC01.

Pls advise.

Thanks.

 

[formula]

i forgot something.. let's say datas are:

A B C D E F G
1 AA08 AA18 AB03 AA30 AB15 AC01
2



It's determining highest alpha numeric values. there are only four
characters per value as "AA01".


Value to be displayed in G1 must be the highest alpha numeric which is AC01.
Pls advise.

Thanks.

 

[Don Guillett]

Did you try my macro