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Jerry W. Lewis
 
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You didn't mention this additional requirement in your original post. Since
these are grades, I will assume that negative numbers cannot occur. In that
case
=IF(COUNTIF(B5:B20,"0"),SUMIF(B5:B20,"0")/COUNTIF(B5:B20,"0"),0)
may be closer to what you are looking for.

Jerry

"Pete Cumberland" wrote:

Hi Jerry,
I tried your solution (many thanks) but as there may be blanks in the
range (represented by zero) I get an incorrect average.

Pete
"Jerry W. Lewis" wrote in message
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If in the workbook this will be repeated many times or involve a much
larger range, then it might recalculate faster to cut out the math
=IF(COUNT(B5:B20),AVERAGE(B5:B20),0)

Jerry

 
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