If there number of cells to be averaged is small
=(A2+A4+A6+A8)/((A2<0)+(A4<0)+(A6<0)+(A8<0))
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"Christy" wrote in message
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I need to average multiple cells that are not continuous and ignore zero
values. The formula to ignore =AVERAGE(IF(A2:A7<0, A2:A7,"")) does not
work
for single cell entries (i.e. A2,A4, A6, A8) Is there a way to do this?