Here is a quick tip that I learned while conducting training classes in Australia.
If you have several dates in a range and you want to find out what the latest date is, just use MAX, like:
=MAX(A1:A10) would give you the latest date.
A Question…,
Assuming you have some dates (not necessarily sorted) in column A, which formula finds the last date (not latest)?
Bonus question: What if there are some gaps (cells with no value)? How would you find the last date?
Go ahead and post your answers in comments. Or share your favorite formula to find latest date in a range.
PS: My Australian trip is over now. On a train from Melbourne to Sydney now and will be leaving to Vizag via Bangkok (and Hyderabad) early tomorrow morning. I am very happy how the whole thing went. More on this later next week.
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Is there anyway to get the Grand Total to be broken out in the same fashion as the items above it? For instance, if you have in column 1, widget a, widget b, and have their sales by month in column 2, I'd like to see the grand total also be by month, for widget a & b combined.
I can't get anything other than a single line for the grand total, rather than the same format as the data above.
Widget A Month Sales
Jan 100
Feb 200
Widget B
Jan 150
Feb 250
Grand total - here I would also like to have Jan, Feb.
Jan 250
Feb 450