Average of Words in Excel

[improvemyknowledge]

Hello Everyone,

I am looking for a little help with a formula issue I am having. I have created the below formula to return the avearge of several words in a list on MPANs onto sheet 1 which works really well.

=INDEX(OFFSET(MPANs!AB2,0,0,MAX(ROW(MPANs!AB:AB)*(MPANs!AB:AB<>""))-1,1),MODE.MULT(MATCH(OFFSET(MPANs!AB2,0,0,MAX(ROW(MPANs!AB:AB)*(MPANs!AB:AB<>""))-1,1),OFFSET(MPANs!AB2,0,0,MAX(ROW(MPANs!AB:AB)*(MPANs!AB:AB<>""))-1,1),0)))

Unfortunatlye however if there is only one value in Column AB it is returning as '#N/A'

Is there a way to get the value of the first row if there are no other entries in the column?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

[Pete_UK]

I don't know what you mean by "an average of several words", so could you attach a sample workbook to help explain this.

Pete

[Glenn Kennedy]

I would avid the use of whole column ranges for a start... and OFFSET, which is volatile.

Named Range (CTRL-F3), here set for up to 1000 rows:
=MPANS!$AB$2:INDEX(MPANS!$AB$2:$AB$1000,COUNTA(MPANS!$AB$2:$AB$1000))

And an array formula:
=IFERROR(INDEX(Range,MODE(MATCH(Range,Range,0)+{0,0})),"")

Array Formulae are a little different from ordinary formulae in that they MUST be confirmed in the FIRST CELL ONLY by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to activate the array, not just ENTER. After that, the array can be dragged down as normal, to cover the desired range.

You will know the array is active when you see curly brackets { } - or "curly braces" for those of you in the USA, or "flower brackets" for those of you in India - appear around the outside of your formula. If you do not use CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER you will (almost always) get an error message or an incorrect answer. Press F2 on that cell and try again.

Don't type the curly brackets yourself - it won't work...

[improvemyknowledge]

Thank you so much Glenn, that has worked a treat! This is super helpful.

Thank you so much!

Rhian

[Glenn Kennedy]

You're welcome.

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