On Feb 18, 2013 7:38 PM, "Chris Knadle" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Monday, February 18, 2013 18:01:16, Jack Chastain wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Matthias Johnson <
> ...
> >    You are correct in that I can't read an ods with an android.  Never
> >
> > > tried as I typically save in office formats since many people wouldn't
> > > know what an ods is.
> >
> > I know what odious is, but not ods. Unless the latter is the former.
>
> .ods = OpenDocument Spreadsheet.

I was being silly ;-)

>
> > Not sure anyone can help ;-)

(Silly again!)

>> - what I am trying to do is get an average of
> > the data in a column above the row the data is on. The average bit is
easy:
> > "-=AVERAGE($D$3:D3)" - That will look odd on the first line, but when
you
> > drag it down - say 13 rows, it becomes "=AVERAGE($D$3:D13)" - which is
> > exactly right for row 13 - but if the data in rows 4-13 isn't yet
present
> > (this is a mileage comparator/calculator, so until time passes, it won't
> > be), I want to really say "If there is information provided in cell D2,
> > then give me the average, otherwise give me 0"
>
> I've got an idea of how to deal with this.  AVG = SUM / COUNT, so...
instead
> of using the AVERAGE function, use SUM(range) / COUNT(range) -- because
the
> COUNT function skips over empty cells.  There's also a function to count
the
> number of empty cells, if you need it.
>

Ooo. Yeah - that makes sense. I will give that a try momentarily. I find
myself waiting for my son's car to be looked at - good time to play with a
spreadsheet.

Thanks!

JC
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