2009/10/6 Wade Smart <[email protected]>:
> Brian Barker wrote:
>>
>> At 22:45 04/10/2009 -0500, Wade Smart wrote:
>>>
>>> I have many columns, for example = B19,D19,F19,H19,J19,L19, that
>>> represent team total points. I want to rank them automatically so I don't
>>> have to do it each week manually.
>>
>> At 10:03 05/10/2009 -0500, Wade Smart wrote:
>>>
>>> For example:
>>> B2 and C2 is Team 1.  B2 holds points.  C2 holds scores.
>>>
>>> B19 holds the sum of the points.  B20 holds the sum of the scores.  In
>>> B21 is Rank.
>>>
>>> The teams from horizontally across the sheet: B&C2, D&E2, F&G2, etc
>>> And in B21, D21, F21 is the ranking.
>>
>> What's in C19, E19, etc.?  If they are empty, try this.  Put
>>  =RANK(B19;$B19:$L19)
>> into B21.  Copy it and paste it into D21, F21, etc.  This calculates the
>> rank of B19, D19, etc. in the (fixed) range of values from B19 to L19.
>>
>> If C19, E19, etc. are not empty, the simplest solution is probably to copy
>> the values from the relevant cells - B19, D19, etc. - into another row,
>> where the alternate cells can be empty.  Then use that copy as the range
>> from which to find the rank.  If you don't wish to see it in the result, you
>> can hide that row or put it in a different part of the sheet or even on
>> another sheet.
>>
>> I trust this helps.
>>
>> Brian Barker
>>
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>
> Perfect!
>
> I have been someone how locked out of my functions list in Help (see other
> post of mine today) so Im glad you showed me this :D

I'm glad too, because I didn't know this existed… I always used
COUNT.IF in some somewhat more complicated formulas… And I didn't even
always get the right results from it (unless I used rounded the values
in some way)…

J.R.

>
> Wade
>
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