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    Averaging minus High and Low

    Hi, I'm looking for a formula that will average 5 numbers, getting rid of the High and the Low numbers. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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    Re: Averaging minus High and Low

    Hi and welcome to the forum

    you need to look at using averageifS() and incorporating <>min() and <>max()

    If your data is in A1:A5, try...

    =AVERAGEIFS(A1:A5,A1:A5,"<>"&MIN(A1:A5),A1:A5,"<>"&MAX(A1:A5))
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    Re: Averaging minus High and Low

    That method may not work if there are duplicate numbers....

    TRIMMEAN function averages without "outliers" - try

    =TRIMMEAN(A1:A5,2/COUNT(A1:A5))

    which can be extended to any size range....or for 5 numbers

    =AVERAGE(SMALL(A1:A5,{2,3,4}))
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    Re: Averaging minus High and Low

    Thank you both, that works great daddylonglegs!

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