Average ignoring negative values

Grepees

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Is there an easy way to find the average of a range of cells ignoring negative values?
 

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Try

=AVERAGE(IF(SIGN(A1:A3)<>-1,A1:A3))

confirmed withn CTRL + Shift + Enter.
 
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Peter made it a bit fancy though...

=AVERAGE(IF(SIGN(A1:A3)<>-1,A1:A3))

will pick out both real 0's and reaf off empty cells as 0's.

=AVERAGE(IF(SIGN(A1:A3)=1,A1:A3))

wiil ignore empty cells, but not the real 0's.

A non-fancy set up like...

=AVERAGE(IF(ISNUMBER(A1:A3),IF(A1:A3>0,A1:A3)))

ignores both real 0's and empty cells.
 
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