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September 24, 2004

Averaging non-zero values

Here is a simple trick to exclude zero-valued cells from functions where it might be desired - for example the AVERAGE function.

In the example below, we average the sales figures over a number of counties. That is straightforward =AVERAGE(Range)

However, by using the ever-so-useful COUNTIF together with the SUM function, we can instead just average the non-zero values.

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Posted by Dave at September 24, 2004 02:34 AM

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That's awesome!

Posted by: Dan at April 1, 2006 08:05 PM

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