A column of monthly totals
Jan 400
Feb 800
Mar 0
Apr 0
May 0
Need a simple formula that will return an average on non zero months ie: 600

Hi!

One way:

Entered as an array using the key combo of CTRL,SHIFT,ENTER:

=AVERAGE(IF(B1:B5<0,B1:B5))

Biff

"Dana" wrote in message
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A column of monthly totals
Jan 400
Feb 800
Mar 0
Apr 0
May 0
Need a simple formula that will return an average on non zero months ie:
600

"Dana" wrote:
A column of monthly totals
Jan 400
Feb 800
Mar 0
Apr 0
May 0
Need a simple formula that will return an average on
non zero months ie: 600

If you don't like working with array formulas, you could do
the following:

=SUMIF(A1:A4,"<0")/COUNTIF(A1:A4,"<0")

But I wonder why you think ignoring zero months gives you
the YTD average.