how to find the right most cell in a row with a value in it ?

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Max

I have a need to have cell with a formula or series of formulas, that can
find the right most cell in a specific row that has a value in it.

I tried various flavors of lookup but was not able to make this work.

any ideas?
 
Depends on what you mean by "value"

=LOOKUP(9^9,3:3)

returns the last number in row 3

=LOOKUP(REPT("z",255),3:3)

returns the last text entery on row 3

=LOOKUP(2,1/(3:3<>""),3:3)

returns the last non-blank cell.
 
sorry, yes I should have been more specific:

I have a row, formatted as numeric. Everytime a certian event happens that I
am tracking at work, I put a number in the next column to the right.

On another location in the worksheet, I need to have a forumula that will
look in the specific row and find the number, furthest to the right. They
are not in any kind of order that would allow a min, or max function to be
used.

I will try the lookup formula you provided.

Thanks !
 
The formula =lookup(9^9,3:3) works, with "3" being the row number.

questions:
1- what is the 9^9 ?
2- can i specify this for certian columns in a row? for example, look in row
B37:AH37 ?
 
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