Formula to determine the Earliest value between several months

[Josiev]

Hello.....I am struggling to find a formula that I could use in order to find the EARLIEST value entered from several months. Attached is a workbook that will be populated each month and will potentially have values from Jan 2015 through whatever the latest month would be........for each row, I need to pick the earliest value entered on column "AO". As an example on 1st row, the earliest value for contract # 10007 is 17.07% entered in Mar-2015, contract 10008 would 18.20% entered in Jun 2015, etc..Since this list will be long, it would be preferable to have a formula that does not use array formulas as I find that this type of formula typically freezes the workbook.

Any help is truly appreciated...

 

[Chihiro]

Something like this.
In AO9:
=INDEX($E9:$AN9,,MATCH(TRUE,INDEX($E9:$AN9<>0,),0))

Copy down.

 

[Josiev]

Something like this.
In AO9:
=INDEX($E9:$AN9,,MATCH(TRUE,INDEX($E9:$AN9<>0,),0))

Copy down.

This works perfectly...Thank you so much!