Mark not sure what type of reply you are expecting... I only can tell
you 2 things:

1. I have more than a dozen programs which core formulas containing
combinations of index, match, etc... So it depends of what you are
doing....


2. I wondered couple of years ago why to use the rank function.... last
week it came handy. Bottom line, probably there are many functions you
don't use (you don't have to !!) if you don't need them

Mika