This post will guide you how to average a range of cells and ignoring all zero values in Excel. How do I Average numbers in a given range and ignore zero values with a formula in Excel. How to ignore zero when averaging a range of data in Excel.

Average a Range and Ignore zero

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Assuming that you have a list of data in range B1:B4, which contain numbers. And you want to get the average value of those values, but excluding all zero values. How to do it. You can use a formula based on the AVERAGEIF function to ignore zero when taking an average in Excel. Like this:

=AVERAGEIF(B1:B4,"<>0")

Type this formula into a blank cell and press Enter key on your keyboard. Then it would return the average result which has ignored all zero values.

Let’s see how this formula works:

The AVERAGEIF function will perform an average based on your criteria, the values should not equal to zero value. And it will ignore all blank cells and text or zero values.

You can also use another formula to achieve the same result of calculating an average value for a given range ignoring zero values. Like this:

=SUM(B1:B4)/COUNTIF(B1:B4,">0")

Type this formula into a blank cell and press Enter key on your keyboard.

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