Each condition is provided with a separaterangeandcriteria.

The syntax used to apply criteria in MINIFS is a bit tricky because it is unusual in Excel.

See below for details.

Example of MINIFS function with two criteria

The syntax for the MINIFS function depends on the criteria being evaluated.

Each condition is provided with a separaterangeandcriteria.

With these three arguments, MINIFS returns the minimum number inmin_rangewhere corresponding cells inrange1meet the condition set bycriteria1.

Example of MINIFS function with two criteria

Additional conditions are applied using range/criteria pairs.

The second condition is defined byrange2andcriteria2, the third condition isrange3andcriteria3, and so on.

MINIFS can handle up to 126 range/criteria pairs.

Example of MINIFS function with two criteria

Each condition requires a separaterangeandcriteria, and operators need to be enclosed in double quotes ("").

Note conditions are added in range/criteria pairs.

The range E5:E16 is paired with the condition “B”.

Example of MINIFS function with two criteria

Wildcards

Thewildcardcharacters question mark (?

), asterisk(*), or tilde (~) can be used incriteria.

A question mark (?)

Example of MINIFS function with two criteria

matches any one character, and an asterisk (*) matches zero or more characters.

For example, to match a literal question mark (?

~?, ~*, ~~).

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The MIN function ignores empty cells, the logical values TRUE and FALSE, and text values.

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Example of MINIFS function with two criteria