Lorraine, here is one way,

=SUMPRODUCT((A1:A10)/COUNTIF(A1:A10,"<0"))

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"Lorraine" wrote in message
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I need to average the figures in several cells. However some cells have a
0
in them.

I therefore want the formula to ignore the cells which have a zero.

I have used the AVERAGE & AVERAGEA function, but both count 0 cells.
(although AVERAGEA ignores blank cells, I need to keep the 0s in as they
are
linked to another formula)

Thanks.