help with AVERAGE problem

Dwise85

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Hi,

I am trying to find the average in a column. If there is not data in that column I went to reference the data in another cell and use that as "the average" for that column. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

for example:
column 1 cells A1:A8 are averaged in A9, column 2 cells B1:B8 are averegd in B9, column C cells C1:C8 are averaged in C9 but all cells are blank and returing a #div/0!. if this is the case I want to use the data that is in E6 and and use that as the average if this is the case.


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Hi,

You can just wrap your formula with IFERROR:

=IFERROR(AVERAGEIF(D2:D8,"<>0"),H6)
 
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Welcome to the forum.

How about:

Code:
=IFERROR(AVERAGE(D2:D8),$H$6)

AVERAGEIF may not be required, since AVERAGE ignores empty cells.
 
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You're welcome, welcome to the forum.
 
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