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Hello everyone,

I was wondering if there was a way of excluding Zeros from averages.
I have tried IF and AND but have not been able to get it to work correctly.

I want to be able to fist find column b, then get an average by group where
value in F is not Zero.

This is what I have (it's working, but I cant seem to be able to count only
if value < 0, using a countif)

=(SUMIF(B18:B65536,B8,F18:F72))/COUNTIF(B18:B65536,B8)

Sample data:

B C E F G H
Online Sales 329 138 1 150 1
Location Sales 999 18 2 130 1

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How about a helper column? AVERAGE() will process zeros, but it ignores
blanks. So in Z1 put =IF(B1=0,"",B1) and copy down.

If B has a value, then so will Z. If B has a zero, then Z will have a
blank. Then average using Z
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"Alex" wrote:

Hello everyone,

I was wondering if there was a way of excluding Zeros from averages.
I have tried IF and AND but have not been able to get it to work correctly.

I want to be able to fist find column b, then get an average by group where
value in F is not Zero.

This is what I have (it's working, but I cant seem to be able to count only
if value < 0, using a countif)

=(SUMIF(B18:B65536,B8,F18:F72))/COUNTIF(B18:B65536,B8)

Sample data:

B C E F G H
Online Sales 329 138 1 150 1
Location Sales 999 18 2 130 1

Thanks


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This isn't quite the answer you are looking for ... but it averages the non
zero values in column B

=(SUMIF(B:B,"0",B:B))/COUNTIF(B:B,"0")

But then, so would: =AVERAGE(B:B) ;-)

Hopefully you can adapt it.

If you need to check a condition in column B and column F you probably need
to use SUMPRODUCT. If you search the archives there are lots of examples.

Regards

Trevor


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Hello everyone,

I was wondering if there was a way of excluding Zero's from averages.
I have tried IF and AND but have not been able to get it to work
correctly.

I want to be able to fist find column b, then get an average by group
where
value in F is not Zero.

This is what I have (it's working, but I can't seem to be able to count
only
if value < 0, using a countif)

=(SUMIF(B18:B65536,B8,F18:F72))/COUNTIF(B18:B65536,B8)

Sample data:

B C E F G H
Online Sales 329 138 1 150 1
Location Sales 999 18 2 130 1

Thanks




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You could do this.

=SUMPRODUCT((B18:B65536=B8)*F18:F65536)/SUMPRODUCT((F18:F655360)*(B18:B65536=B8))

Your ranges need to be the same size. The first sumproduct sums the
total where B = B8. The second does the counting.

Does that help?

Steve


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If you only include the range without blanks, then this will do:
=SUM(A1:A100)/COUNTIF(A1:A100,"<0") --(no blanks in A1:A100)
otherwise use this:
=SUM(A1:A100)/SUMPRODUCT(N(A1:A100<0),N(LEN(A1:A100)0))

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"Alex" wrote:

Hello everyone,

I was wondering if there was a way of excluding Zeros from averages.
I have tried IF and AND but have not been able to get it to work correctly.

I want to be able to fist find column b, then get an average by group where
value in F is not Zero.

This is what I have (it's working, but I cant seem to be able to count only
if value < 0, using a countif)

=(SUMIF(B18:B65536,B8,F18:F72))/COUNTIF(B18:B65536,B8)

Sample data:

B C E F G H
Online Sales 329 138 1 150 1
Location Sales 999 18 2 130 1

Thanks




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Thanks

Thanks everyone...

Steves Suggestion worked excellent.

Cheers

Alex

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You could do this.

=SUMPRODUCT((B18:B65536=B8)*F18:F65536)/SUMPRODUCT((F18:F655360)*(B18:B65536=B8))

Your ranges need to be the same size. The first sumproduct sums the
total where B = B8. The second does the counting.

Does that help?

Steve


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