Comments on: More MINIF Examples

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:50:00 +0000

Is it possible to use the MIN(IF… functihon in Conditional Formatting? I can’t figure it out. Say, in your example above, I want to hilight the Minimum value in column B that has Los Angeles in Column A. (e.g. row 2 or 3 depending on if you want to exclude 0′s or not)
Thoughts?

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:13:00 +0000

tom c: =MIN(IF((A2:A7=7050),(B2:B7)))

By: tom castellano

tom castellano — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:51:00 +0000

I have multiple employee ID numbers along with what week they had their first sale. Is there a formula that I could enter in a column that would say for each employee ID what week they made their first sale? For example, employee ID 7050 had their first sale in week 3, employee 6321 made their first sale in week 4?

I'm just looking for a formula, I did not want to have to sort, filter or create a pivot table.

ID - WK
7050 - 6
7050 - 3
7050 - 4
6321 - 6
6321 - 4
6321 - 7

By: Doug Jenkins

Doug Jenkins — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:27:00 +0000

Thijs – Array formulas do work in Excel 2007, including the ones given here.

By: Thijs

Thijs — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:19:00 +0000

Excel 2007 doesn’t seem to support the CSE function (hitting Ctrl+Shift+Enter). It has SUMIF, but I haven’t found anything to make MINIF/MAXIF work.

By: Jake Marx

Jake Marx — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:45:00 +0000

Nancy,

These are all examples of array formulas. You must enter them with Ctrl+Shift+Enter instead of just hitting Enter. They should work when you do that.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:03:00 +0000

Excel isn’t letting me do this. It keeps pointing to the text value criteria (e.g. =”Los Angeles”) as the problem. I tried adding a column and assigning a numeric value to each text string, and making the if statement if(range=3)*(2nd range), but I get the same error. I’m going to look for your other articles of minif and maxif and see if I get any help. I find it odd that you would publish something that doesn’t work.

By: frank

frank — Sun, 03 Oct 2004 22:55:00 +0000

I put my hand over my mouth. Though I have spoken once, I will not do so again; though twice, I will do so no more.

(Book of Job 38,1.12-21.40,3-5.)

Who can beat Ken Wright and Frank Kabel on conditional array formulas? I still think their approach is too little understood. See also
http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.SUMPRODUCT.html#top

By: Dick

Dick — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 03:38:00 +0000

frank (not Kabel): I don’t think that second MIN function works. If any entries are not Los Angeles, they will return zero and that will be the MIN. Am I missing something?

By: Dick

Dick — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 03:36:00 +0000

Frank K: I don’t know who Ken is, but I love that MIN ignores FALSE. Very cool.