使用公式引用单元格的行值

Question

Suppose my excel sheet looks like this:

Name	Houses	Cars owned	column D
John	3	3	=A&MAX(30,3)
Harry	2	4	..
Vik	5	1	..
..	p	k	..
...	q	n	..

In column D, I want to return the row in column A that corresponds to the larger of the two values in cells B2 and C2. So in cell D2, I would want to return "Vik" because the larger of the two values in B2 (3) and C2 (3) is 3. And the value in cell A3 is Vik.

So in order to arrive at my result, I would input something like ="A"&MAX(B2,C2) in D2.

But suppose my formula was a lot more complex and with different data.

=IFERROR(ArrayFormula(ADDRESS(MAX(index(IF($A$1:$D6=B7,ROW($A$1:$D6),""),,IF($A$1:$D6=B7,COLUMN($A$1:$D6)),"")),MAX(IF($A$1:$D6=B7,COLUMN($A$1:$D6),"")))),"")

and I wanted the result of the first chunk of the formula (from ADDRESS() onwards)

MAX(index(IF($A$1:$D6=B7,ROW($A$1:$D6),"") (which is 3 , say) to be the row number that is input into

MAX(IF($A$3:$D3=B7,COLUMN($A$1:$D6),"")) for the range inside the IF condition.

(notice how $A$1:$D6 changed to $A$3:$D6)

So, going by the tabular example above, I would simply input MAX(IF("$A$"&MAX(index(IF($A$1:$D6=B7,ROW($A$1:$D6),""):$D6=B7,COLUMN($A$1:$D6),"")) and that should do the trick. Except it doesn't and I get a formula parse error which I cannot resolve.

Here is the specific excel sheet I'm working on: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12U8U7Jp4FscobIvgr4_sADJB_oSdIHrboCk02cxF_u0/edit?usp=sharing

Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong? The solution, I think, should be simple enough but I can't seem to figure it out.

Sorry if it's a bit long but I've been struggling with this for a while now.

Answer 1

I hope this formula will help

=ARRAYFORMULA(IFNA(VLOOKUP(QUERY(TRANSPOSE(QUERY(TRANSPOSE(B2:C6);"select "&JOIN(",";"max(Col"&row(B2:C6)-1&")")));"select Col2+1 label Col2+1''");{row(A:A)\A:A};2;False)))

Answer 2

Solved using the indirect function and ampersand concatenation.

New function would be: =IFERROR(ArrayFormula(ADDRESS(MAX(index(IF($A$1:$D6=B7,ROW($A$1:$D6),""),,IF($A$1:$D6=B7,COLUMN($A$1:$D6),""))),MAX(IF(INDIRECT("$A$"&(MAX(index(IF($A$1:$D6=B7,ROW($A$1:$D6),""))))):$D6=B7,COLUMN($A$1:$D6),"")))),"")