MIN/MAX on text sort order
问题 In SQL Server, MIN and MAX can act on text that doesn't evaluate to numbers, returning the text item with the lowest or highest text sort order, or as it's known in SQL Server-speak, "collation order". Is it possible to do that in Excel without going to a UDF that actually sorts? For example, for MIN("bb","aa","cc") to return "aa", and MAX("bb","cc","aa") to return "cc". Excel's MIN/MAX ignore text, and although MINA/MAXA can work on text, they break on text that doesn't resolve to a number.