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Excel Challenge 23: How to Break Ties When Ranking

Claudia Buckley

Claudia Buckley

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In this month's Excel challenge, we pit the old against the new! Tell us what to do when ranking gets problematic because of duplicate values.

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The Challenge

To summarize:

  1. What method(s) can we use to identify the top 5 agents based on their Quality Score?
  2. How do you handle when we have more than 5 agents with the top 5 scores?

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Do you think we should use Dynamic Array formulas? Or are you more old-school? What are the pros and cons of each method? 

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The Solution

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Claudia Buckley

Claudia Buckley

Claudia is a certified Microsoft Office Expert (Excel Specialist), project manager, and business skills instructor at GoSkills who has spent over 20 years in employee professional development. Claudia has a Masters Degree in Business Administration and a Diploma in Educational Psychology. In her spare time, she listens to audiobooks and is an amateur genealogist. View her profile here.