Hi Mike,

Yes that does the trick!

I'll probably stick with the original but learning alternative ways helps
more than you will know :-)

Thank you
--
Diddy


"Mike H" wrote:

Hi,

Now that's a different question. Not necessarily better then your but
another way

=AVERAGE(IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH(COLUMN(E8:H8),{5,8},0)) *(E8:H80),E8:H8))

This is an array formula which must be entered by pressing CTRL+Shift+Enter
'and not just Enter. If you do it correctly then Excel will put curly brackets
'around the formula {}. You can't type these yourself. If you edit the formula
'you must enter it again with CTRL+Shift+Enter.

Mike

"Diddy" wrote:

Hi Mike,

I seem to have lost the gift of communication today. Not meaning to be rude
at all and very grateful for reponses.

What I meant to convey (and not succeeding at all) is that in the original Q
and the subject line, I've asked for ways to deal with blanks but the value
can be 0 if there is a score for the test, or 0 or blank.

0 or blank is if the test was missed (what I was trying to say when waffling
about data being from DB, was that if we could control the input at the db
stage then that would be a good solution).

Sorry again :-)
--
Diddy


"Mike H" wrote:

Hi,

It's irrelevant where the data are coming from. If your formula works well
then put my formula alongside yours is a cell and try and make them give
different answers and you'll fail to do so because they will always return
the same one. Including #DIV/0 of both cells are empty.

You asked for a simpler way and as of yet the one I posted is the simplest
and meets all of the requirements


Best regards,

Mike

"Diddy" wrote:

Hi Mike,

Sorry Mike, I've misled you! The data is coming in from worksheets prepared
by different people from a database. I've no control over what is put in the
db fields, so in some cases the missing data may be left blank or may be a
zero.

The formula I have does work but I wondered if there was a more efficient way.

Cheers
--
Diddy


"Mike H" wrote:

Hi,

Average ignores blanks cell so

=AVERAGE(E8,H8)

does what you want.

Mike

"Diddy" wrote:

Hi everyone,

I'm using the following formula to average the values of 2 cells. If either
is empty, I want it to return the value in the non-blank cell.

=IF(AND(E80,H80),AVERAGE(E8,H8),SUM(E8,H8))

This works fine but is there a better way to do it?

Cheers
--
Diddy