MAXA Function

About

MAXA function is used to find the largest number from a set of values. The difference between MAX and MAXA function is that the latter evaluates ‘TRUE’ and ‘FALSE’ values as ‘1’ and ‘0’ respectively.

Function Type

Statistical

Purpose

Get the largest value in a set of values

Return value

A number equivalent to the largest value

Syntax

=MAXA(value1, [value2],...)

Arguments

value1– can be a direct value, cell reference or range reference.

value2– [optional] can be a direct value, cell reference or range reference


Example


Notes

Numbers in cells formatted as ‘Text’ will be evaluated as ‘0’ by MAXA function.


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