Using the Excel SMALL function with filtering criteria AND ignoring zeros

Question

I have a list of prices for products that are variations (different size, color) of multiple parent product. Some products (for reasons not important to this question) have a p

Answer 1

If the input data is sorted based on the parent reference level you can simply

• use offset to find the required parent reference cells containing the price
• Find the k-th smallest value using the SMALL formula (i.e. the smallest value)
• Put a if condition to give you the 2nd smallest value if the smallest is 0

Place this in the 1st row

=IF(SMALL(OFFSET($I$1,MATCH(C1,$C:$C,0)-1,0,COUNTIF($C:$C,C1)),1)=0,SMALL(OFFSET($I$1,MATCH(C1,$C:$C,0)-1,0,COUNTIF($C:$C,C1)),2),SMALL(OFFSET($I$1,MATCH(C1,$C:$C,0)-1,0,COUNTIF($C:$C,C1)),1))