Mode formula to ignore blank cells

Hi All,

Hope everyone is going well despite the current COVID 19 situation and I hope you, your family and friends are keeping safe.

I need help with a formula for MODE. The formula will only work if there is data in that cell otherwise it returns a #VALUE!. If I put in zeros in the cells then the value returned is 0 which is incorrect as the return value will be wrong.

The other cells will need to be blank as there might only be less than ten (10) people doing scorings sometimes only 5 people.

I have attached a sample worksheet.

Many Thanks

I changed the formula from Mode to Mode.Mult and placed zeros in the empty cells and it seemed to work. No error messages.

Please try at Z22

=MODE(IF((G$21:W$21="Score")*(G22:W22<>""),G22:W22))

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Score only appear once each.

You may try this to pick the first Score
=MODE(IF((E$21:W$21="Score")*(E22:W22<>"")*{1;1},E22:W22))

or this to show Max score
=IFNA(MODE(IF((E$21:W$21="Score")*(E22:W22<>""),E22:W22)),MAX(IF((E$21:W$21="Score")*(E22:W22<>""),E22:W22)))

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