Dynamically fill a cell with text

jmcmahan

I have included a picture to help tell the scenario, but I'm trying to dynamically populate a cell with the question's name with the highest result. The actual form I'm using has over 160 columns, so I'm trying to find a way to automate the top result(s) with the question's name. The expectation is to eventually scale this to list the top 5 to 10 questions.

Thanks for any help you all can provide!

Leibel S

@jmcmahan

The basic idea would be:

=INDEX(COLLECT([Column2]1:[Column5]1, [Column2]@row:[Column5]@row, @cell = MAX([Column2]@row:[Column5]@row)), 1, 1)

what do you want to do when there is 2 equal ones?

You could join them:

=JOIN(COLLECT([Column2]1:[Column5]1, [Column2]@row:[Column5]@row, @cell = MAX([Column2]@row:[Column5]@row)), ", ")

If you want this to be a column formula you would do as below:

=JOIN(COLLECT(INDEX([Column2]:[Column5], 1), [Column2]@row:[Column5]@row, @cell = MAX([Column2]@row:[Column5]@row)), ", ")

jmcmahan

Thanks, @Leibel Shuchat! These formulas gave me the results I needed. I appreciate it very much!

Leibel S

@jmcmahan

The basic idea would be:

=INDEX(COLLECT([Column2]1:[Column5]1, [Column2]@row:[Column5]@row, @cell = MAX([Column2]@row:[Column5]@row)), 1, 1)

what do you want to do when there is 2 equal ones?

You could join them:

=JOIN(COLLECT([Column2]1:[Column5]1, [Column2]@row:[Column5]@row, @cell = MAX([Column2]@row:[Column5]@row)), ", ")

If you want this to be a column formula you would do as below:

=JOIN(COLLECT(INDEX([Column2]:[Column5], 1), [Column2]@row:[Column5]@row, @cell = MAX([Column2]@row:[Column5]@row)), ", ")

jmcmahan

Thanks, @Leibel Shuchat! These formulas gave me the results I needed. I appreciate it very much!