Conditional formating with indexing <more info provided&

[jpw8174]

Ok here is what I am doing I am creating a spreadsheet that keeps track of 5 diffenet people's stats in a game. I am trying to get it to then show the name of the person with the highest stat in each catagory. I have the sheet set up with B1 to F1 are the names and then B7 to B31 is the different stats for the first name and then the others follow same pattern. I will be using g7 to g31 to have the names displayed in. I don't know how to get it to compare several different numbers and grab just the highest numbet and then select the right name. I don't even know where to start this formula. I have done indexing before but I am total lost were to start this one.

ok i have been working on this and here is a protion of what I cam up with;
I created a set of 5 colums that have this formula in them with colum adjutments
H7 =IF(B7>C7;AND(B7>D7;AND(B7>E7;AND(B7>F7)))) = True
I7 =IF(C7>B7;AND(C7>D7;AND(C7>E7;AND(C7>F7)))) = false
J7 =IF(D7>B7;AND(D7>C7;AND(D7>E7;AND(D7>F7)))) = false
K7 =IF(E7>F7;AND(E7>D7;AND(E7>C7;AND(E7>B7)))) = false
L7 =IF(F7>E7;AND(F7>D7;AND(F7>C7;AND(F7>B7)))) = false

the result is true ot false, I think i got the compare right but it still isn't close to what I am after. this might not even help.

I then figured i would have to have it pick the one that is true and then get the name from the range above which then would be H6 to L6

=INDEX(H6:L6;MATCH("true";H7:L7))

My result is the name in L6 when H7 is tcorrect result the name i want is H6

[keme]

You are comparing a logical value to a text string. Try typing TRUE without the quotes.

I haven't figured out the logic of your formulas, but from your description of the task, I suspect you could use the SMALL(), LARGE(), and/or RANK() functions.

[jpw8174]

Thank you TRUE with out the quotes became a 1 once io hit enter and now it works except for 2 instances I have 2 people that are both equal with the highest stat so they return a flase in my greater then formula. those 2 stats give the name of L6 how do I make it return a given value of "no clear leader"

I there a formula that would compare say B7 to F7 and return the highest figure and cross reference the name from the index for which on has the highest. I am close to it but to get that info I needed to create 6 different formulas where I was hoping for 1 the index is B1 to F1 I have 25 stats to track with currently 5 people but there will be more.

I like working with a range of cells rather then being very exact to name each cell (like with =SUM(A1:A99) if I ad a cell in the middle the range expands and counts the new cell automaticly. I have this working with sveral different formulas in my file.