Thanks for your help- this also works. Very Clever !

"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote:

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 03:44:02 -0800, "Lorraine"
wrote:

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.

Use this **array** formula:

=AVERAGE(IF(rng<0,rng))

(substitute your range to average for 'rng').

To enter an **array** formula, hold down <ctrl<shift while hitting <enter.
Excel will place braces {...} around the formula.
--ron