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    Calculating average for one column based on value existing in another column

    Hi,

    I have the following problem: I would like to calculate average productivity of two people who do not always work together.
    I want to see if they are more productive individually than in a tandem and here's how the part of raw data looks like:

    Date------- Employee1-------Employee2
    31/10/2012------- 0.064------- 0.269
    02/11/2012------- -0.177------- #N/A
    03/11/2012------- -0.383------- #N/A
    05/11/2012------- 0.005------- 1.100
    07/11/2012------- 0.281------- 0.808
    08/11/2012------- #N/A------- 0.840
    11/11/2012------- #N/A------- 0.687
    14/11/2012------- -0.225------- 0.986
    17/11/2012------- 0.681------- -0.258


    If there is an #N/A it means employee was not working that day.
    So what I actually need is to have:
    1. Average for both employees when they are working together
    2. Avg for both employees when the other one was absent.

    Any ideas will be really appreciated.
    Thanks,

    Leszczur

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    Re: Calculating average for one column based on value existing in another column

    Woking in my head this should do it. Might need a tweak in the sheet though as I might have messed something up!

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    Re: Calculating average for one column based on value existing in another column

    Perhaps I should have made myself clearer.
    For calculating average for Employee 1 - I'm not only looking to ignore cells with "#N/A" value, but I want only those where in corresponding column for Employee 2 we have "#N/A".
    So for the raw data of Employee 1 I want an average from row 2 and 3 (as Employee 2 was not at work). And for Employee 2 I want average of rows 6 and 7 (when Empl 1 was absent).

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    Re: Calculating average for one column based on value existing in another column

    D'oh - yeah I knew something wasn't right, I gave you the inverse for the "alone" working. The ones for them both working together should still be correct.

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    Again, let me know if I'm just having one massive Monday brain fart!

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    Re: Calculating average for one column based on value existing in another column

    WORKS! Many thanks mate!

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