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) -------------------------------------------------------------- Sent with "Me-Mail", Boltblue's FREE mobile messaging service. http://www.boltblue.com ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************