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How to find minimum value in a range excluding zero value in Excel?

Normally, zero value is supposed to be the minimum value among positive numbers. But in some cases, you need to find the minimum value in a range excluding the zero value. This article will show you method of finding minimum value excluding zero in Excel.

Find minimum value excluding zero with formula

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Supposing your number values locate in range A1:E7 as below screenshot shown. Please apply the following formula to get the minimum value in that range excluding zero in Excel.

1. Select a blank cell (H1) for placing the minimum value, enter formula =SMALL(A1:E7,COUNTIF($A$1:$E$7,0)+1) into the Formula Bar, and then press the Enter key.

Then the minimum value of specified range excluding zero is populated in the selected cell as above screenshot shown.

Note: You can also use the array formula =MIN(IF($A$1:$E$7 <>0,$A$1:$E$7)) + Ctrl + Shift + Enter keys to get the minimum value of a range excluding zero in Excel.

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Denysptwn
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Saya mencari nilai alpa predikat dan tentunya nilai 0 sangat dibutuhkan, kenapa fungsi min tidak mendeteksi nilai 0 di excel saya?
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crystal     Denysptwn
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Hi Denysptwn,
The formula in this post helps to find the smallest value excluding zero.
If you want to include zero in the result, just use this formula: =MIN($A$1:$C$7)
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Hi Dear Srystal
Many thanks for you kindness and the time you spend for my problem and for solving it,
I didn't knew this way and this is very useful for future working.
As i have more than 700 rows in my sheet and needed to sort my data too and because of some merged cells it was very hard to do it, therefore i askd fir help to have some VBA code and some kind friends kindly sent me a code and soled my problem.
I am Sorry, I forgot to let you know that the problem has been resolved.
Thank you again and hope to be able to repay the love of all of you friends.
Good luck dear
Sincerely yours, Javid
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crystal     JavidP
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Hi Javid,
You may receive an error message when you sort a range that contains merged cells in Excel. There is no directly way to handle this issue. You need to manually unmerge the merged cells first to sort all cells. You can following the methods in the following article. Hope I can help. Thank you for your comment.
How To Sort Data With Merged Cells In Excel?
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JavidP     crystal
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Hi dear Crystal,
Good to see your comment again :)
Many Thanks for your useful information and suggestion.
After facing many problems, I decided to change my strategy and the first step was to remove the merged cells and replace them with new cells and new numbers.
I'm making some changes, including the one I mentioned.
I hope I will face less problems from now on.
Thanks again with love,
Have a nice times.
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JavidP
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Hi
Can anyone help me to use formula to find small value except zero and highlight it with conditional format?
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crystal     JavidP
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Hi,
Please follow the steps below to get it done.
1. Click Home > Conditional Formatting > New Rule.
2. In the Edit Formatting Rule dialog box, select Format only cells that contain in the Select a Rule Type list box; Select equal to in the second drop-down list, and then enter the formula below (don't forget to change the cell references):
=SMALL($F$5:$O$21, COUNTIF($F$5:$O$21, "<=0")+1)
3. Click the Format button to specify a fill color to highlight the cells.
4. Click OK.
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Zingo
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Hi, how to search for the minimum of values present in multiple matrices, always excluding 0 if the matrices are on different sheets?
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crystal     Zingo
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Hi Zingo,Sorry I can't help to solve this problem. Here suggest you post the problem to the forum below to get help from other Excel enthusiasts. https://www.extendoffice.com/forum/kutools-for-excel.html 
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I have a formula that looks the the lest number in a seperate workbook, but if the data is not fully entered or collected yet, the return value is 0, rather than the smallest number. is there a way to solve this via the formula or a feature in exceel?
=MIN(IF('Input Data 54 mm'!$D:$D='Index Values 54 mm'!$A7,('Input Data 54 mm'!J:J)*95%))
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crystal     Justin
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Hi,
Sorry I can't solve this problem. You can post the problem to the forum below to get help from other Excel enthusiasts.
https://www.extendoffice.com/forum/kutools-for-excel.html 
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How do I find the small/lowest number that is not 0 based on certain conditions, e.g.: find the minimum number in a row, based on the columns with "covid"?
I typed this =MIN(IF($C$8:$AF$8=$AK$3,C10:AF10<>0,C10:AF10)) but it doesn't evaluate this $C$8:$AF$8=$AK$3, it only returns C10:AF10<>0,C10:AF10. where AK3 = covid.
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Hafeez ur rehman
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what to do if you have zeros in a row. for example comparative statement with not quoted items?
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francis
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update on the formula from Crystal: the formula works but the it counts the blank cells as the lowest in the range. how do we fix the formula not to count for zero value or empty cells?
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francis
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Crystal, you are amazing! thank you thank you so much for the help :-) made my life/work easier
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This was very useful. how do we revise the formula that instead of giving me the lowest value, it would identify under which heading is the lowest value on. Scenario is i have 3 suppliers, providing 3 different prices. i would like the formula to tell me which supplier has the lowest price (i.e. supplier 1, supplier 2, etc) and gives me that supplier's name so i could sort it later. Thank you
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crystal     francis
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Hi francis,
Please apply this formula: =INDEX($A$1:$C$1,0,MATCH(MIN($A2:$C2),$A2:$C2,0)) as the below screenshot shown.
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octavia     crystal
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Hi Crystal, how to excludie zero value in this formula
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