XL2000: Min and Max Functions Do Not Work Properly with Arrays (213328)

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If you want to apply the Min and Max functions to the entire array you must use the Double data type, as demonstrated in the last part of the code.
NOTE: Microsoft Excel stores dates as serial numbers calculated as the number of days since January 01, 1900. The sample code in this article displays dates as serial numbers.

Sample Visual Basic Procedure

Option Explicit
				

Sub DateArrayTest()
   Dim dtarr(1 To 2) As Date
   
   Sheets("sheet1").Activate
   dtarr(1) = "1963-01-17"
   dtarr(2) = "1996-05-08"
   
   ActiveSheet.Cells(1, 2).Value = "Entire Array"
   ActiveSheet.Cells(1, 3).Value = "Individual Elements"
   ActiveSheet.Cells(1, 4).Value = "Double"
   ActiveSheet.Cells(2, 1).Value = "Min"
   ActiveSheet.Cells(3, 1).Value = "Max"
   
   'Evaluate the entire array - result is 0
   ActiveSheet.Cells(2, 2).Value = Application.Min(dtarr)
   ActiveSheet.Cells(3, 2).Value = Application.Max(dtarr)
   
   'Evaluate individual elements of array - correct result
   ActiveSheet.Cells(2, 3).Value = Application.Min(dtarr(1), dtarr(2))
   ActiveSheet.Cells(3, 3).Value = Application.Max(dtarr(1), dtarr(2))

   Dim dblarr(1 To 2) As Double
   
   'Initialize the array
   dblarr(1) = dtarr(1)
   dblarr(2) = dtarr(2)
   
   'Evaluate the Double datatype array - correct result
   ActiveSheet.Cells(2, 4).Value = Application.Min(dblarr)
   ActiveSheet.Cells(3, 4).Value = Application.Max(dblarr)
End Sub