How to average a column of numbers that are greater than 0?

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I am trying to average a column of numbers. I want to only average the cells
that contain a number greater than 0. How do I do that?
 
you can use a pivot table, or auto filter with this condititional (greater
than 0) and in this case use =subtotal(1,a2:a500)

hth
regards from Brazil
Marcelo

"JimNColorado" escreveu:
 
this is an array formula that must be entered/edited using ctrl+shift+enter

=AVERAGE(IF(E1:E21>0,E1:E21))
 
I'll admit my bias against array formulas and offer an alternative...
Average is simply sum/count. So =sumif(range,">0")/countif(range,">0") will
average the positive values.
 
I support this result as the most logical....
bpeltzer said:
I'll admit my bias against array formulas and offer an alternative...
Average is simply sum/count. So =sumif(range,">0")/countif(range,">0")
will
average the positive values.
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because I don't like array functions... it is not something special... I
just dont like to use them...
 
If it's *most* logical to you, may I ask then, why would you use
Sumif(range,">0").
Seems illogical to *need* " add if it's greater then zero", *unless* there's
a stipulation to exclude negative values.

A simple:
Sum(range)/Countif(range,">0")
would be adequate without further qualification from the OP.

What do you think?
 
What if I want to do the same thing but I want to include negative values.

For example

A1 B1 C1 D1 E1
1000 1500 -400 300

So I want to average A1 to D1 but i also want to have the formula include
cell E1 because there may be times when E1 has a value - positive or negative.
 
You want the average of 5 cells, not just the AVERAGE of A1:E1?

=SUM(A1:E1)/5 returns 480

AVERAGE(A1:E1) returns 600 because AVERAGE ignores blanks.

Whatever suits you.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
 
No what I want is for the formula to ignore all Zero values.

So if only 4 out of the 5 cells have a value - positive or negative - i want
it to average the 4 cells not the 5

But if all 5 cells have values - positive or negative - i want it to average
the 5 cells.
 
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