Average Non-Adjacent Cells in Budget Spreadsheet

I have Budget SpreadSheet thet is set by month(U3), then Budget(U4), Actual(V5) columns. This is repeated 12 times across the sheet. I then have "Buget Average" and an "Actual Average" cell. The budget average is easy because all cells have values for all 12 months. How do I average the actual since only a few months have data?

This shoud be simple but I have read 200 posts and have not found anything. All suggestions were for ranges/adjacent cells.

Just run AVERAGE as normal, it ignores blank cells

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> I have Budget SpreadSheet thet is set by month(U3), then Budget(U4),
> Actual(V5) columns. This is repeated 12 times across the sheet. I then
> have "Buget Average" and an "Actual Average" cell. The budget average
> is easy because all cells have values for all 12 months. How do I
> average the actual since only a few months have data?
>
> This shoud be simple but I have read 200 posts and have not found
> anything. All suggestions were for ranges/adjacent cells.
>
>
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=(F10+H10+J10+L10)/(COUNTA(F10,H10,J10,L10)

This formula should work where F10, H10, J10, L10, etc are your Actuals and
where a zero is entered for any past month with no Actual data.



"OPB3" wrote:

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> I have Budget SpreadSheet thet is set by month(U3), then Budget(U4),
> Actual(V5) columns. This is repeated 12 times across the sheet. I then
> have "Buget Average" and an "Actual Average" cell. The budget average
> is easy because all cells have values for all 12 months. How do I
> average the actual since only a few months have data?
>
> This shoud be simple but I have read 200 posts and have not found
> anything. All suggestions were for ranges/adjacent cells.
>
>
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Tim Whitley wrote...
>=(F10+H10+J10+L10)/(COUNTA(F10,H10,J10,L10)
....

Why not just use

=AVERAGE(F10,H10,J10,L10)

?

This is close but it only works on on rows (AH7, AH8, etc) without my subtotals (AH9). I have attached a pdf of the spreadsheet (I Think) and this is the actual formula:

=(J7+L7+N7+P7+R7+T7+V7+X7+Z7+AB7+AD7+AF7)/(COUNTA(J7,L7,N7,P7,R7,T7,V7,X7,Z7,AB7,AD7,AF7))

The row with the subtotal has a zero placed due to the formula so the future months that have no actuals skew the average. The AVERAGE function alone, as suggested, does not work at all.

I am a "newbie" to excell and appreciate the help.

Originally Posted by Tim Whitley

=(F10+H10+J10+L10)/(COUNTA(F10,H10,J10,L10)

This formula should work where F10, H10, J10, L10, etc are your Actuals and
where a zero is entered for any past month with no Actual data.



"OPB3" wrote:

>
> I have Budget SpreadSheet thet is set by month(U3), then Budget(U4),
> Actual(V5) columns. This is repeated 12 times across the sheet. I then
> have "Buget Average" and an "Actual Average" cell. The budget average
> is easy because all cells have values for all 12 months. How do I
> average the actual since only a few months have data?
>
> This shoud be simple but I have read 200 posts and have not found
> anything. All suggestions were for ranges/adjacent cells.
>
>
> --
> OPB3
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OPB3 wrote:
> This is close but it only works on on rows (AH7, AH8, etc) without my
> subtotals (AH9). I have attached a pdf of the spreadsheet (I Think) and
> this is the actual formula:
>
> =(J7+L7+N7+P7+R7+T7+V7+X7+Z7+AB7+AD7+AF7)/(COUNTA(J7,L7,N7,P7,R7,T7,V7,X7,Z7,AB7,AD7,AF7))
>
> The row with the subtotal has a zero placed due to the formula so the
> future months that have no actuals skew the average. The AVERAGE
> function alone, as suggested, does not work at all.
>
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Given the structure of the formula you posted:

=AVERAGE(IF(MOD(COLUMN(J7:AF7)-COLUMN(J7)+0,2)=0,IF(J7:AF7>0),J7:AF7)))

which needs to be confirmed with control+shift+enter, not just with enter.