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Old May 21st, 2010, 02:26 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions
malcolm
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Default Average a column that contains one cell of text

What formula do I use to average a column of numbers that contain one cell
with text? I'm using Excel 2007
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Old May 21st, 2010, 02:34 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions
T. Valko
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Default Average a column that contains one cell of text

The AVERAGE function will ignore text (in an array).

How do you want to handle that one cell with text?

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What formula do I use to average a column of numbers that contain one cell
with text? I'm using Excel 2007



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Old May 21st, 2010, 02:37 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions
Don Guillett[_2_]
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Default Average a column that contains one cell of text

=average(c:c) should ignore text. I get 4 from this sample
1
a

1
10


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What formula do I use to average a column of numbers that contain one cell
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Old May 21st, 2010, 02:55 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions
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Default Average a column that contains one cell of text

=AVERAGE(A1:A100)
The +AVERAGE() function ignores text values.
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What formula do I use to average a column of numbers that contain one cell
with text? I'm using Excel 2007

 




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