Pick the low number in a column of Numbers

[boxarox]

I have a column of numbers that are the results from formulas. in the absence
of enter values, the results column (say D) show several zeros.

I use =min(d1:d16) placed in column E to return the lowest value in the
colunm D which is ussually zero.

What I want to do is ignore the zeros and pick the lowest numer that is not 0.

=IF(e12<=0,e12,SMALL(d5:d12,2)) works for a column of negative numbers,
because they are all less than zero.

I can't seem to get the formula right For Positive integers.

Help please

 

[muddan madhu]

suppose u have values in range d5:d12 ...

Try this =SMALL(D512,COUNTIF(D512,0)+1)

 

[boxarox]

Thanks for the speedy reply. Your formula works nicely

 

[Ken]

Maybe???

=IF(SMALL(D116,1)=0,SMALL(D116,2),MIN(D116))