How to search a maximum in range (determined by a value in another cell)?

Question

I'm trying to find the maximum and minimum in a range of cells.
I've determined the start cell and end cell in Table 1 for each search range, but I can't get it to fit in a formula.
TABLE 1
1 --- 105
2 --- 75
3 --- 20
4 --- 74
5 --- 124
6 --- 100
7 --- 17
TABLE 2
Start row (A) --- End row (B) --- MAX (C) --- MIN (D)
1 --- 3 --- 105 --- 20
4 --- 7 --- 124 --- 17
I can get Numbers to display the cell to start in the range,
=ADDRESS(A2,2,,,"Table 1")
results in "$A$1"
but apparently, you can't include that function in a range
=MAX(ADDRESS(A2,2,,,"Table 1"):(ADDRESS(A3,2,,,"Log"))
So how do I get my MAX formula to include the range that the ADDRESS formula outlines?

Answer 1

in column MAX the formula is:
=MAX(OFFSET(Tableau 1 :: $A$1,$A,1,$B+1-$A))
in column MIN it is:
=MIN(OFFSET(Tableau 1 :: $A$1,$A,1,$B+1-$A))
in both case, OFFSET(Tableau 1 :: $A$1,$A,1,$B+1-$A)
is a range whose first cell is Tableau 1 :: $A$1+( $A rows) + (1 column) and which contain $B+1-$A cells in the scanned column.
for the row 2 this means 3+1-1 = 3 cells in the column starting in Tableau 1 :: B2
for the row 3 this means 7+1-4 = 4 cells in the column starting in Tableau 1 :: B5
I uses the absolute addressing so that it is easy to relocate the formula from C2 to C3 or even from C2 to D2 (just need to replace MAX by MIN).
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 8 juillet 2008 14:32:49)