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Old 03-22-07, 13:14
MillB MillB is offline
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Averaging a column question

Okay - here's my situation.

I have 5 columns (see attachment)
1. ticket #
2. Open date
3. Closed date
4. Formula ( =DAYS360)
5. Formula (=IF(D1643<0,0,D1643) Because if it's a month like Feb. it was give a negative number and we would rather round off negatives as zero.
At the bottom of column 5 there is an AVERAGE formula.

What I need to accomplish:
We are basing averages on count of days, however, I need to exclude zeros (or tickets that are opened and closed within the same day as these are typically password and ID resets). So basically only averaging numbers in column 5 that are greater than 1. Any suggestions?

Your help is much appreciated.

Thank you!

B
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Old 03-22-07, 16:08
JerryDal JerryDal is offline
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Here is my Excel solution showing the averaging of six numbers in a column where the value must be greater than one.
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21 =SUMIF(A$1:A$6,">1")
4 =COUNTIF(A$1:A$6,">1")
5.25 A7/A8 = Average if > 1

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Old 03-22-07, 17:59
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Thanks!

Jerry,

Thanks for the response - AVERAGE IF is exactly what I was looking for.

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