The only problem is that Excel will use the zeros in calculating the
statistics making them completely inaccurate.

I appreciate everyone's input. This seams to be a tougher question than I
originally thought.

Mac

"RagDyeR" wrote:

Your formulas are constructed to return an appearance of being empty by
using "",
which is actually a zero length string.
The important word here being "string", which means TEXT.

Perhaps your best choice is to use numeric zero,
and eliminate its display by:

From the Menu bar,
<Tools <Options <Display tab,
and *uncheck* "zero values" under Window Options.
--

HTH,

RD
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"MacPadana" wrote in message
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This is the formula I am using:
=IF(C9=70,C9,"")

I want to populate the cells in a column with only the values in Column C
that are greater than or equal to 70. Once I have that populated I want to
use the Descriptive Statistics, Data Analysis tool to get Mean, Median, Mode
, Standard Deviation etc. on the data in the new column. As soon as there is
a cell in column C below 70, though, whatever is returned in the new column
prevents Excel from being able to calculate the statistics. If there is an
easier way to go about it, I'd be happy to hear that too.

Thanks

"Fred Smith" wrote:

It looks like your "discriptive statistics" don't like blank cells.
Explain
what discriptive statistics are and someone will be sure to help you.
Posting the formulas you are using is the best way to get help.

Regards,
Fred.

"MacPadana" wrote in message
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That's what I thought at first but when I try to run discriptive
statistics
on a range of cells that includes that, I get a message that says "Input
range contains non-numeric data". Any other Ideas?

"Stefi" wrote:

Try this:

=IF(condition,"",result_if false)

Regards,
Stefi

"MacPadana" ezt Ã*rta:

Can an "IF" formula return a blank cell, not a zero?