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    Excel for Mac Issue: Calculating the best 3 grades out of 5

    Hello,

    I'm using Excel for Mac 2011.

    I would like to calculate the average of the best 3 grades out of 5.

    I tried =AVERAGE(LARGE(B6:F6,{1,2,3})) without success. Excel keeps telling me that the formula I typed contains an error.

    What am I doing wrong?

    Any help would be much appreciated.
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    Re: Calculating the best 3 grades out of 5

    Must be a Mac problem
    - your formula works on Windows for me
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    Re: Calculating the best 3 grades out of 5

    I'm going nuts here. Watched about a dozen different videos on YouTube and it's not working.

    Anyone with a Mac that knows how to do this?

    Cheers,

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    Re: Calculating the best 3 grades out of 5

    Maybe change the comma in semicolon:
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    Re: Calculating the best 3 grades out of 5

    It works at my end too.
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    Re: Calculating the best 3 grades out of 5

    Anyone with a Mac here? Could you please tell me whether formulas like this work on your machine?

    The semi colon did not work either.

    Really frustrating.

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    Re: Excel for Mac Issue: Calculating the best 3 grades out of 5

    No one with a Mac on this forum?

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    Re: Excel for Mac Issue: Calculating the best 3 grades out of 5

    As a workaround you could try
    =AVERAGE(LARGE(B6:F6,1),LARGE(B6:F6,2),LARGE(B6:F6,3))

    It works on Windows

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    Re: Excel for Mac Issue: Calculating the best 3 grades out of 5

    Does
    =AVERAGE(LARGE(B6:F6;ROW($1:$3)))
    entered with Cmd+Shift+Enter work?
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