YTD average - How do I create a formula?

[Dana]

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

[Biff]

Hi!

One way:

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

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

Biff

"Dana" <[email protected]> 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

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"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.