Forum Discussion
Average of cells containing numbers and blanks and text
Shadysalman Please remove the quotation marks around the percentages as they turn them to texts, no matter what format you have set for the cell.
E.g. i have 4 cells ..1 empty and 1 with text and other 2 with numbers for example 100 and 100.... The simple average function if i do it it will return these cells result as 50 instead of 100!! Because it divided on 4 instead of 2.
Shadysalman Not sure I follow. When I do exactly as you describe I get this:
the first picture shows the formula result as 100% despite it has 0% in more than once.... and instead it should be 66%.
and the 2nd picture shows the average as 39 % where it should be in fact 74% if the average did not consider the empty cells.
please let me know if you know a solution.
Thanks for the support.
Shadysalman Replicated your examples with the numbers from the pictures and can not reproduce the incorrect calculation you mention. On the first one, 6 values of 100% plus 3 of 0% will always return an average of 66.67%. If your calculation does not, perhaps the 0% cells are in fact texts containing the string "0%". Then the answer becomes 100%.
On the second one, four times 100%, one 0%, one 25%, one 93% and two blanks return an average of 74%. The only way I can come to an average of 39.33% is by averaging (0+25+93), meaning that all other "numbers" are in fact texts like "100%".
Thanks for spending the time.
I just doubled check all the cells I have linked to the outcome cell, and all of them are percentage type not text. however it worth mentioning that all the cells have predefined formula that return the result in each of them.
See the attached for illustration.
It looks like you obscure your data.
See picture.
It would be better to get real workbook for inspection.
