Excel min value greater than x returns 0 if no value found?

Question

I am using the following formula: =MIN(IF(A1:A5>B1,A1:A5)) use Ctrl-Shift-Enter My value for B1 is 10 and my array is {1,5,4,2,7} so in this case no value is greater than 1

Answer 1

Your IF statement will return False if none of the numbers in the range are greater than 10. It appears that MIN is converting False to numeric (0). You need to add behavior to handle the False.

If you know that all valid values must be >=0, then you could use the "else" section of the IF formula to return -1.

MIN(IF(A1:A5>B1,A1:A5,-1))

Answer 2

Try using SMALL instead of MIN, i.e.

=SMALL(IF(A1:A5>B1,A1:A5),1)

Unlike MIN the SMALL function will return an error [#NUM!] for your example

....or if you want a text value instead of an error then use IFERROR function, too, i.e.

=IFERROR(SMALL(IF(A1:A5>B1,A1:A5),1),"None")