You are going to have a real job on trying to average over non-contiguous
cells ignoring zero, whereas ignoring blank is easy, the AVERAGE formula
works.

Do you mean that this formula errors
Actual =SUM(G5*H5)+(I5*J5)+(K5*L5)+(M5*N5)+(E5*F5)
when one or more of F5,H5,J5,L5,N5 is blank, because I just tried it and it
works fine for me with blank.

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"LS Steakhouse" wrote in message
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Yes, I know and that would work fine other than, in the next cell after
the
average is done I have an actual cost of all deliveries x number of goods
brought in. If I do not put a 0 in the empty cells, then it does not
calculate and instead gives me an error, here is the formula for the
average,
and the formula for the actual.
Avg =AVERAGE(F5,H5,J5,L5,N5)
Actual =SUM(G5*H5)+(I5*J5)+(K5*L5)+(M5*N5)+(E5*F5)
The reason i want to average these intakes is so that I can at the end of
the month do an avg cost on my inventory as weekly prices change and it
would
be to extensive to build something to track all that, yet alone sit here
and
input it all lol.
But I need the actual as well to figure in my food cost and such monthly
and
weekly. I am stuck as to what to do with it.
FRM
"Bob Phillips" wrote:

If you can force a blank in there rather than 0, it won't average.
Average
will include 0, as it is a numeric value, so why wouldn't it?

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"LS Steakhouse" wrote in
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But the situation, it still divides by 5 no matter what. If there is
say 1
of
the cells with a zero in it then it, then it should divide by4, for
instance
if the 5 cells are as follows with amounts. 5.25,5.65,0,5.45,0. with
this
formula the average would be3.27 which is incorrect. the average
should be
5.45. Thats where I am having the difficulties, any suggestions?
FRM

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

If you average like this

=AVERAGE(B18,D18,F18,H18)

if any are zero, it won't be included in the average.

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"LS Steakhouse" wrote in
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I have created an inventory sheet and am wanting to average the
cost
of
the 4
deliveries, excludung empty if i did not recieve an order that
week. I
have
it set up like this del1 amount del2 amount del3 amount del4
amount.
If I
try and use the suggestion that help gives me it gives me all of
the
cells
as
an average, I dont need what amount i got delivered, just the
prices
averaged. Can someone give me a clue? Thanks
FRM