Comments on: Use the MIN function to find the employee with the lowest sales http://www.freshexcel.com/formula-and-function-examples/min-function-find-employee-lowest-sales/ Quick and Easy Excel Tips and Tutorials Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:19:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Jon Peltier http://www.freshexcel.com/formula-and-function-examples/min-function-find-employee-lowest-sales/#comment-1110 Jon Peltier Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:53:32 +0000 http://www.freshexcel.com/?p=375#comment-1110 Didn't I comment already? This post looks very familiar. This will not identify the employee with the lowest sales, merely the lowest sales value. You could use conditional formatting to highlight this minimum value in the table. Select B2:E10, go to Formatting menu > Conditional Formatting, and select Formula for Condition 1. Enter =B2=B$12 or =B2=MIN(B$2:B$10) as yoour condition formula, and select a format to highlight this minimum, perhaps bold red text of light red background. Didn’t I comment already? This post looks very familiar.

This will not identify the employee with the lowest sales, merely the lowest sales value.

You could use conditional formatting to highlight this minimum value in the table. Select B2:E10, go to Formatting menu > Conditional Formatting, and select Formula for Condition 1. Enter =B2=B$12 or =B2=MIN(B$2:B$10) as yoour condition formula, and select a format to highlight this minimum, perhaps bold red text of light red background.

]]> By: Jon Peltier http://www.freshexcel.com/formula-and-function-examples/min-function-find-employee-lowest-sales/#comment-979 Jon Peltier Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:50:47 +0000 http://www.freshexcel.com/?p=375#comment-979 Strictly speaking, this doesn't identify the employee with the lowest sales, it identifies the lowest sales value. To identify the employee, you could use conditional formatting. Select B2:E10, go to Formatting menu > Conditional Formatting, choose Formula Is for Condition 1, and enter this formula: =B2=MIN(B$2:B$10) then click Format and pick a fill color to identify the lowest performer. Click Enter, and the lowest value in each column will be highlighted. Strictly speaking, this doesn’t identify the employee with the lowest sales, it identifies the lowest sales value. To identify the employee, you could use conditional formatting. Select B2:E10, go to Formatting menu > Conditional Formatting, choose Formula Is for Condition 1, and enter this formula:

=B2=MIN(B$2:B$10)

then click Format and pick a fill color to identify the lowest performer. Click Enter, and the lowest value in each column will be highlighted.

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