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Average function Altered when dragging down / drop down
gerald_gl01 That's because you are actually copying three formulas down to the next three rows. The relative row references in the first formula B1:B5 are increased by 3, thus B4:B8. Similar for the other ones. B6:B10 becomes B9:B13 and B11:B15 becomes B14:B18.
You would need to use an OFFSET function that "calculates" the next range of five cells, based on the current row number.
Enter this in C1 and it should work:
=AVERAGE(OFFSET($B$1,(ROW()-1)*5,0,5))
gerald_gl01 That's because you are actually copying three formulas down to the next three rows. The relative row references in the first formula B1:B5 are increased by 3, thus B4:B8. Similar for the other ones. B6:B10 becomes B9:B13 and B11:B15 becomes B14:B18.
You would need to use an OFFSET function that "calculates" the next range of five cells, based on the current row number.
Enter this in C1 and it should work:
=AVERAGE(OFFSET($B$1,(ROW()-1)*5,0,5))
Riny_van_Eekelenit worked thanks to the OFFSET function that you provided! Thanks!