Excel Max Formula Reference to another cell

Question

I have a spreadsheet that has been created as a time sheet

Down the left handside (A2 - A50) are the Task Descriptions Across the top (B1 - F1) are the days of the week

                 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Account creation
Pc Setup
Phone Patch
Hardware Swap

In the rest of the cells I fill in minutes spent on the tasks

Using the max Formula =MAX(F2:F50) , I can find the cell in which I spent the most time on Friday

So for example Cell F3 I spent 55 minutes on a task, so that was the highest for that day

My question is,

Is there a way that I can reference the task description for F3 - so that would be A3 (PC Setup)

As I want to have a cell that is titled: Task Worked on the Most today:

and for that to display the task description from Column A (A3). How can I do this?

Answer 1

Use this formula:

=INDEX(A2:A50,MATCH(MAX(F2:F50),F2:F50,0))

Here MATCH() formula finds the position of the maximum element in array F2:F50 and then INDEX() formula returns the element having this position from array A2:A50 .

Answer 2

This can be done using VLOOKUP function in excel. The way to do this is that the max value is passed as the first parameter to the Vlookup function.

Read up on VLOOK up on the internet.