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Help! new to calculated columns although getting the hang of it I have 6 columns which will contain a value, I what to average the total figure divided by the number of columns but I want to exclude columns containing 0 and I am struggling! a lot!

In Excel I can do this by;

=SUM(E6:E11)/SUMPRODUCT(N(E6:E11<>0),N(LEN(E6:E11)>0))

or

=AVERAGEIF(E6:E11,">0.1")
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Because you have a fixed number of columns, this is a cinch.

=(Value1+Value2+Value3+Value4+Value5+Value6)/(IF(Value1=0, 0, 1) + IF(Value2=0, 0, 1) + IF(Value3=0, 0, 1) + IF(Value4=0, 0, 1) + IF(Value5=0, 0, 1) + IF(Value6=0, 0, 1))
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  • Do I assume value is my column name?
    – Daniel
    Commented Mar 28, 2013 at 15:26
  • Correct, substitute the value# fields with your columns
    – Eric Alexander
    Commented Mar 28, 2013 at 15:29
  • It works!!! thank you very much I really appreciate it, do you know how long I have been trying to work this out!!!
    – Daniel
    Commented Mar 28, 2013 at 15:42
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    Feel free to nominate as an answer. :)
    – Drew Lanclos
    Commented Mar 28, 2013 at 15:58
  • How do I do that?
    – Daniel
    Commented Mar 28, 2013 at 16:06

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