What if I want to do the same thing but I want to include negative values.

For example

A1 B1 C1 D1 E1
1000 1500 -400 300

So I want to average A1 to D1 but i also want to have the formula include
cell E1 because there may be times when E1 has a value - positive or negative.


"Ragdyer" wrote:

If it's *most* logical to you, may I ask then, why would you use
Sumif(range,"0").
Seems illogical to *need* " add if it's greater then zero", *unless* there's
a stipulation to exclude negative values.

A simple:
Sum(range)/Countif(range,"0")
would be adequate without further qualification from the OP.

What do you think?
--
Regards,

RD

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please keep all correspondence within the NewsGroup, so all may benefit !
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Is something else going to happen
"Sasa Stankovic" wrote in message
...
because I don't like array functions... it is not something special... I
just dont like to use them...
"Don Guillett" wrote in message
...
why?

--
Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"Sasa Stankovic" wrote in message
...
I support this result as the most logical....
"bpeltzer" wrote in message
...
I'll admit my bias against array formulas and offer an alternative...
Average is simply sum/count. So =sumif(range,"0")/countif(range,"0")
will
average the positive values.

"JimNColorado" wrote:

I am trying to average a column of numbers. I want to only average the
cells
that contain a number greater than 0. How do I do that?