To take ties into consideration, assuming that Column A contains your
numbers and you want to return the corresponding value in Column B,
try...

C1, copied down:

=INDEX($B$1:$B$100,MATCH(LARGE($A$1:$A$100-ROW($A$1:$A$100)/10^10,ROWS($C
$1:C1)),$A$1:$A$100-ROW($A$1:$A$100)/10^10,0))

....confirmed with CONTROL+SHIFT+ENTER, not just ENTER.

Hope this helps!

In article <110211DC-276F-4D7E-B7D8-44FDD9DFF449@microsoft.com>,
"Tracy A" <Tracy A@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I have two columns. I want to search the first column for the largest number
> and return the value in the next cell.
>
> Then I would like to search the first column for the second largest number
> and return the value in the next cell.
>
> I would like to do this without sorting the data!!
>
> Is this possible?