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sony654
 
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Default Looking-up Columns w/calc'd Values ONLY to Calculate Average

Your help will be appreciated. PROBLEM: The formula below returns an answer
of 100% (WHICH ISN'T RIGHT). The correct result should be 11%.

=IF(COUNTIF(F18:M18,"<0"),LOOKUP(2,1/(F18:M18<0)*ISNUMBER(F18:M18)),AVERAGE(F18:M18)-AVERAGE(F22:M22))

WHAT I AM TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH (LAYOUT BELOW):
1) LOOKUP CALCULATED VALUES IN F18:M18
I.E. F18:I18
2) LOOKUP CALCULATED VALUES IN F22:M22
I.E. F22:I22
3) SUBTRACT INCREMENTING AVERAGE OF F22:M22 FROM
INCREMENTING AVERAGE OF F18:M18

************WORKSHEET LAYOUT****************
COLUMN D E F G H I J K L M
ROW
18 50% 33% -25% 50% 0% 0% 0% 0%
19 4 6 8 6 9
20
21 5 4 2 6 2
22 -20%-50% 200% -67% 0% 0% 0% 0%



Thank-you - Sony



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