average in non-continuous set, excluding blanks
Hi
There are no special cases I'm aware of, if the cell is really blank it's
ignored. What's in the cell is it a formula with the cell formatted to show
particular numbers as zero.
For example 0.001 formatted to 2 decimal places will display as 0.00 but the
..001 is real and would count in an average formula.
As a further example
a1 = 0.001 formatted to 2 decimal places displays 0.00
a2= 4
The average of these would display correctly as 2
Post your formula for these 'blank' cells
Mike
"JJ" wrote:
But in practice, it did not. Are there special cases when it works and
doesn't work?
"Mike H" wrote:
hi,
Excel ignores blank cells in an average formula so this works
=AVERAGE(A3,D3,G3,J3)
Mike
"JJ" wrote:
I want to calculate the average of non-adjacent cells (ie "=average(A3, D3,
G3, J3)"). In some cases there are blank cells in the set. How do I prevent
these blank cells from being counted as zeros? I do not want them included
in the average. I have only found instructions on how to do this when the
set is continuous (ie "=average(A1:A10)").
Thanks for your help!
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