OK! I told you, it was late/early. My bad. Thanks for clarifying my lack
of observation this morning.

"Ragdyer" wrote:

You'll notice that my message was addressed to, and sent as an answer to,
the OP!
I wanted him to check on *his* original post on this subject.

http://tinyurl.com/jtjg8

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RD

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"JLatham" wrote in message
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"Take a look at your original post!"
Duh - maybe it's the fact that it's 3 a.m. right now, but I'm not picking
up
on the hint?
While the simple formula I originally posted would handle a specific case,
I
thought the desire was to just have a "general" formula that would be left
on
the sheet down thru the column and then empty out the numbers in column A
and
put them back in each month. That's why I scratched my head real hard and
came up with that somewhat nasty general formula?

"RagDyer" wrote:

Take a look at your original post!
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"Tom Watt" wrote in message
ps.com...
The problem is specifying the cells each month. One month values may
exist in C5 and C12, the next month they may be in C4 and C13. I
would
like to create one set of formulas, lock them and they work..

Thanks,

Tom

JLatham wrote:
You should be able to specify a range with the COUNTBLANK function.

in D12, try this formula:

=(C12-C5)/COUNTBLANK(C5:C12)

"Tom Watt" wrote:

Hello,

I have used the LOOKUP formula to find the value of the the next
cell
up with data (because there are blank lines seperating them), and
this
works. But now I need to divide the difference of two values by
the
number of blank lines that seperates them plus 1 (the number of
days
that the two values are apart). COUNTBLANK will not work because
it
will return the amount of blank cells total in a column, not just
ones
that are seperating two values (which are not always in the same
cells).

Example:

This month there happens to be a value 101,010 in C5 and later a
value
102,020 in C12. In D12 I would like the difference
(102,020-101,010)
divided by the number of cells apart (C12-C5=7).

Thanks,

Tom