Best would be to link the cells to a continuous range otherwise if you only
have 4 cells you can just add them like
=COUNTIF(A1,"0")+COUNTIF(A3,"0")+etc
if you have many cells you can select them using ctrl and mouse click and
then give them a name like MyRange (insertnamedefine) and use
=SUMPRODUCT(--(LARGE((MyRange),ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&COUNT(MyRange)) ))0))
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"cervenyc" wrote in message
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The countif function doesn't seem to work when I'm not applying it to a
range. Well, I am applying it to a range, but it is not a continuous
range.
i.e. not A1:A8, but rather A1,A3,A6,A8. How do I make the formula work
without a continuous range? Thanks.
"SteveG" wrote:
I think I got this straight. In one instance, you want to count the
number of cells in a range that are greater than zero and divide it by
the total number of cells in the range.
=COUNTIF(A1:A8,"0")/SUM(COUNTBLANK(A1:A8)+COUNTIF(A1:A8,"0"))
A1:A8 being the range.
Then you also want to average the values from the range A1:A8 if they
are greater than zero?
=AVERAGE(IF(A1:A80,A1:A8,FALSE))
This is an array so you need to commit with Ctrl-Shift-Enter which
results in the formula being enclosed in curly brackets like.
{=AVERAGE(IF(A1:A80,A1:A8,FALSE))}
HTH
Steve
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