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Asked: 2026-05-29T06:37:04+00:00

I don’t use excel often, and I haven’t really found a good solution to

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I don’t use excel often, and I haven’t really found a good solution to my problem. (which is probably really simple).

I would like to have a cell with a function in my spreadsheet that shows another cell value value that depends on yet another cell value.

Such as:

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The Best Deal heading simply uses the formula 

=MAX(D3,D1000)

But under Best Deal I would like to display the Name Test1 rather than the numeric value.

Another thing that would be nice to know, is if there is a way to know the maximum row with data in it. So rather than =MAX(D3,D1000) something like =MAX(D3,Max(RowCount_InD))

Obviously that function wouldn’t work as I wrote it, but hopefully this pseudo code gives you an idea of what I mean. The purpose is that if more entries are added, it would be able to handle them.

I know this is possible, but I’m having some trouble. Hopefully I can get some help here.

Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    The easiest way to do this is to use a combination of Index and Match. Match will find the position of the maximum value, and then Index will look in column A and return the data in that same position. So, your formula would be:

    =INDEX(A$3:A$1000,MATCH(MAX(D$3:D$1000),D$3:D$1000,0))

    Put that formula in F3. No hidden columns required.

    Sorry, I missed the part about the expanding range. You can do that by using Count or CountA along with Offset. The new formula would be:

    =INDEX(A3:OFFSET(A3,COUNTA(A:A)-1,0),MATCH(MAX(D3:OFFSET(D3,COUNT(D:D)-1,0)),D3:OFFSET(D3,COUNT(D:D)-1,0),0))

    More complex, but it is basically the same except that it will expand as you add new values at the end.

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