Nice one Sandy. I had a 'Column' head on because the data are in a column and
should have realised your much simpler formula utilising ROW would work :)

Still, on the bright side mine would work if the data weren't evenly spaced
by tuning the offset.

Mike

"Sandy Mann" wrote:

One way:

=AVERAGE(IF((MOD(ROW(L11:L59),8)=3)*L11:L59<0,L11 :L59,FALSE))

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"jgcrews" wrote in message
...
I'm a relative novice and have a straight-forward question concerning
averaging. I need to average a specific set of cells (not a continuous
range) and ignore any cells with a value of 0.

I'm sure this is pretty easy but the more I read about all of the
averaging
functions, the more confused I got.

Currently, I'm simply using:
=AVERAGE(L11,L19,L27,L35,L43,L51,L59)
which obviously isn't what I really want.

Can someone head me in the right direction? Thanks in advance for your
help.

Jeff