Locate max value of one column based on criteria in another colum

[JDay01]

I have built a summary report in Excel that uses primarily 'SUMIF' formulas
to calculate totals by customer from another sheet in the workbook containing
the source data. In one of my report columns, I actually need to pull the
MAX value from the source data---but it needs to be specific to each customer
in my summary report. (I'm thinking of a "MAXIF" type function) Is there
any way I can do this without converting my report to a Pivot Table, which I
really don't want to do??

 

[Bob Phillips]

Something like

=MAX(IF(rng1="Customer",rng2))

as an array formula, so commit with Ctrl-SHift-Enter

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HTH

RP
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[Duke Carey]

Try this, entered with CTRL-Shift-Enter

=MAX(--(C2:C25=cust)*A2:A25)