Finding the Highest Value in a Row, and then return the value of cell above it

[jeells102]

Hi All,

So I've got a table in excel that is laid out like below;

[TABLE="width: 711"]
<colgroup><col><col><col><col><col><col span="5"></colgroup><tbody>[TR]
[TD]8am-9am[/TD]
[TD]9am-10am[/TD]
[TD]10am-11am[/TD]
[TD]11am-12pm[/TD]
[TD]12pm-1pm[/TD]
[TD]1pm-2pm[/TD]
[TD]2pm-3pm[/TD]
[TD]3pm-4pm[/TD]
[TD]4pm-5pm[/TD]
[TD]5pm-6pm[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: right"]1[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]6[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]7[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]8[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]9[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]10[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: right"]1[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]12[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]72[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]124[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]209[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]322[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]450[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]500[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]644[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]678[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: right"]1[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]6[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]7[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]8[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]9[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]10[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD] [/TD]
[TD="align: right"]11[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]60[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]52[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]85[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]113[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]128[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]50[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]144[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]34
[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

And the last row is the difference between Column B - Column A. What I want to do, in a different cell, is say "Find the highest number in the row, and then return the time in which that happened in"

So in the table above, Excel would find that 144 was the highest number, and it would return 4pm-5pm. I cannot think of a way to do this. Does anyone have any ideas?

I think I'm gonna have to do a index and match, but I have no clue on how best to tackle that.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

 

[mrshl9898]

Hi,

Assuming your data above starts in A1, try this:

=INDEX(A1:J1,1,MATCH(MAX(A5:J5),A5:J5,0))

 

[dcoker]

=INDEX(A1:J1,1,MATCH(max(A5:J5),A5:J5,0))

This is given that the data is in row 1 starting with column A.

Hope this helps!