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I have a Google Docs spreadsheet for tracking my weight. I have two columns: Date and Weight. While the goal is to have the weight column sorted in descending order, that doesn't always happen in reality... ;-)

The data essentially looks like this (weights changed to far lower values, of course):

Date    |Weight 
04/01/10|195 
04/02/10|194 
04/03/10|190 
04/04/10|198

etc.

Anyway, I have a cell in another spot on the sheet that shows the minimum value from the weight column using this formula

=(Min(B:B))

What I would like to do is display the corresponding date cell for whatever the minimum value from the weight column is. So, with this dataset, I want to show 190 for weight and 04/03/10 for date. Is there any way to get that corresponding cell? I looked through the function reference for Google docs, but can't get anything going. I tried using some of the functions from the Lookup category, but got nowhere. Most want a cell reference, but the min() function returns a value. I think I need to somehow get min() to give me a cell reference, but I don't know how to do that. HLOOKUP() sort of seemed like it might be appropriate, but the docs were a bit spotty, and it didn't do anything but error out the cell.

Of course, I may be barking up the wrong tree entirely.

Thoughts?