Average elapsed time of each item in a list.
Posted by David on October 05, 2001 10:28 AM
Help! I'm trying to make a chart that shows the average elapsed time, by product from a spreadsheet log listing start times, products and end times.
I have a log with an initial date/time in column A, a product in colum B, a closing date/time in column C and the formula to calculate the elapsed time in column D.
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A.......................B..........C...................D................................
9/25/2001 2:43:36 PM...Apple1.1...9/26/2001 6:59:59 AM...=IF(I1000-A1000>0,I1000-A1000,"")
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Z1:Z20 contains a list of products
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I have another sheet with this array formula copied down A1:A20..
{=AVERAGE($D$2:$D$1800)*SUM(ISNUMBER(SEARCH($Z1,$B$2:$B$1800))+0)}
This seems to give me an average "time of day" or a number representing the time of day instead of an average elapsed time which is what I'm looking for.
I hope I haven't made this too confusing to figure out.
Thanks for any ideas.