Angela,

If you truly have blanks, then Excel will ignore them for all of the functions that you want to use.

=AVEDEV(IF(A1:Z1<"",A1:Z1)) - Array entered using Ctrl-Shift-Enter
=AVEDEV(A1:Z1)

Both return the same for me, no matter how many blanks, text strings, and "" values I add in.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"Angela" wrote in message
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I have blanks.

"Bernie Deitrick" wrote:

Angela,

Blanks are not zeroes, and Excel treats them differently. Which do you have?

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"Angela" wrote in message
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Bernie, Please don't hate me. But I must be doing something wrong because it
isn't coming up with the same thing.
Example:
A1=1, B1=0, C1=2, D1=0, E1=3, D1=0, E1=4, F1:Z1=0
If using the =AVEDEV; =AVERAGE; =MEDIAN, it comes up with a different answer
than if i were to use the =AVEDEV(IF(A1:Z1<"",A1:Z1)).
It sounds weird, but it actually works until i enter data on the 4th cell.
Am i doing something wrong?

"Bernie Deitrick" wrote:

Angela,

All those functions ignore blanks automatically.

With the

=STDEV(IF(A1:A5<"",A1:A5))

method, you need to use Ctrl-Shift-Enter rather than just Enter. That's what Biff meant by
Array
formula....

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"Angela" wrote in message
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Biff, What if i need the same result as below, but was using the formula
=AVEDEV, =AVERAGE & =MEDIAN. Can i make it do the same thing? I tried using
the IF statement you wrote below on them, and it didn't work. It does work
on the =STDEV, though. Thank you in advance for all your help. You really
know your formulas. Thanks :-)

"Biff" wrote:

I hit send before I was done!

This array entered formula specifically excludes empty cells:

=STDEV(IF(A1:A5<"",A1:A5))

But it returns the exact same result as:

=STDEV(A1:A5)

Biff

"Biff" wrote in message
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Hi!

Empty cells and cells that contain text are ignored.

You don't need to specifically exclude empty cells.

Biff

"Angela" wrote in message
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Hi. I am currently using the STDEV formula. Is there a way, that i can
make
the formula use data from nonblank cells, only. For example: A1, A2, A5
will
have numbers listed. A3 & A4 are blank. Can i get the formula to use
only
A1, A2, & A5?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.