[mso] Re: My "LOOKUP in Excel" saga

Hi again, Ray

Thanks for the nth Occurrence pointer to ozgrid.com.

All stemmed from a message of mine a while ago. I appreciate that you say you 
avoid 
LOOKUP but wonder if you saw/have any ideas on the actual query (now tidied up 
I 
hope!) below:

My students are doing basic work on Functions and two came up with a similar SS 
formula.

LOOKUP (J5, Filled Down 5:27) returns different cols here (unsorted B:H values):
        A        B          C            D           E               F          
   G        H           I
3   Year   USA   Canada   Japan   France    Germany     Italy     UK
5   1984    7.5       10.9        2.8       10.0          7.1            5.9    
11.7     =MAX(B5:H5)
        J9 then contains     =LOOKUP(I5,B5:H5,$B$3:$H$3)
         
... but returns #NA here in Col F, if MIN returns Col D value (as in Row 3)!!!

       A               B                 C                 D                E   
                         F
1    towns      Airline 1      Airline 2       Airline 3     cheapest           
  best deal        
2    NY   £325            £330            £355      =MIN(B2:D2)
                     F2 then contains     =LOOKUP(E2,B2:D2,$B$1:$D$1)

3    Berlin        £167            £159            £86        =MIN(B3:D3)


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