Join Dennis Taylor for an in-depth discussion in this video Finding the largest and smallest values with LARGE and SMALL, part of Excel 2013: Advanced Formulas and Functions.
If you need to extract the largest value from a list, or the smallest value of a …list, both of those are fairly straightforward using the two functions, …Max and Min. And to make it even simpler, we can use, …either from the formulas tab, the drop arrow associated with auto sum, or on the …home tab, just click the drop arrow, and if you want to get the maximum value. …Simply choose Max and in the example here, if we're looking for salaries, …we'll simply redirect this by clicking Column F to come up with the highest salary.…
And similarly with lowest, same general idea, use the drop arrow, there's Min, …and then we can click Column F and find the minimum salary in this list. …Fairly straightforward in both cases. But sometimes you need to know the second …highest salary. Certainly one way to get there would be …to sort the data, but there is a function called large. …Large simply says, I'm looking at some data. …For example, in column F, and I want to know the second-highest entry, or the …
Author
Released
5/16/2013- Displaying and highlighting formulas
- Converting formulas to values
- Creating 3D formulas to gather data from multiple sheets
- Understanding the hierarchy of operations in formulas
- Using absolute and relative references
- Creating and expanding the use of nested IF statements
- Looking up information with VLOOKUP, MATCH, and INDEX
- Using the power functions: COUNTIF, SUMIF, and AVERAGEIF
- Analyzing data with the statistical functions
- Performing basic math
- Calculating dates and times
- Editing text with functions
- Checking for errors with formulas
Skill Level Advanced
Duration
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Introduction
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Welcome54s
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1. Formula and Function Tips and Shortcuts
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Auditing tools4m 38s
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2. Formula and Function Tools
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3. IF and Related Functions
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4. Lookup and Reference Functions
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Nesting lookup functions4m 11s
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Locating data with MATCH4m 35s
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5. Power Functions
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6. Statistical Functions
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7. Math Functions
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8. Date and Time Functions
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9. Array Formulas and Functions
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10. Reference Functions
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11. Text Functions
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12. Information Functions
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Conclusion
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Goodbye26s
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