now i have got a cell that references it and displays a "0" instead of an empty cell:
and now i have a cell that averages a group of cells which include the cell with a 0 value:
the average in this case is 4.33, but when i read the same excel inside formulas i get a value for the cell Z11 of "Empty" and so the average is wrong, being 5.2 instead of 4.33 because the empty cells are excluded from the AVERAGE computation whereas the 0 inside excel is not excluded ...
is this a common problem and is there any way around it ?
i found out this discrepancy:
i have got an aliased cell with no value:
now i have got a cell that references it and displays a "0" instead of an empty cell:
and now i have a cell that averages a group of cells which include the cell with a 0 value:
the average in this case is 4.33, but when i read the same excel inside formulas i get a value for the cell Z11 of "Empty" and so the average is wrong, being 5.2 instead of 4.33 because the empty cells are excluded from the AVERAGE computation whereas the 0 inside excel is not excluded ...
is this a common problem and is there any way around it ?