Highlight min value of a row that belongs to a certain column header

Question

I have a table like following:

I would like to highlight the cell that has the min "Base" value in each row.

=MIN(C3:Q3) obviously returns the min value in that range. I am not sure how to tell the MIN function to only consider cells that have "Base" text in the column.

In my example, for CPU ; it would highlght I3 , and for the Memory ; it would highlight C6 .

Answer 1

If you want to highlight them (for example with a different color), you do not need a formula at all. Just mark your data columns C , F , I , L and O .

Then you click on Conditional formatting > Manage rules > New rule > Format only top or bottom ranked values.

Here you choose "Bottom" and "1" - so it will highlight the lowest value per row. Have a look at my simplified example where the lowest values in column A or C should be marked: