Your formula comes very close except it returns the result as a value and I
need to keep the result text. Another response gave me the formulas below
that keep the result as text. Thought I would share it with you. Thank you
very much for your help.

=TEXT(MIN(A1:A5+0),"00000")
=TEXT(MAX(A1:A5+0),"00000")


"Jacob Skaria" wrote:

Try the below array formula. you press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to enter the formula.
If successful in 'Formula Bar' you can notice the curly braces at both ends
like "{=formula}"

=MIN(IF(A1:A10"",VALUE(A1:A10)))

If this post helps click Yes
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Jacob Skaria


"Todd" wrote:

I have a list of identification codes that are five digit numbers but will
always be treated as text. For example,

'00020
'00015
'00025
'00050
'00035

I need a worksheet function that will tell me the MIN and MAX of these codes
(evaluating the text as numbers). In this example I know that MIN=00015 and
MAX=00050. However, the actual list will contain hundreds or thousands of
codes. I need the solution to be a function. Sorting or filtering to
manually find the MIN/MAX will not work for me. I'm sure I'm not the first
person to encounter this so I am hoping someone can help me. Thanks so much.