You can highlight the column and then do Data TextToColumns, and use the
/ as the delimiter.........this will separate the diastolic and systolic
numbers each into their own column.........then just average each column
using the =AVERAGE(range) formula.

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"gadmire" wrote:

I am trying to obtain an average of blood pressure over a period of time.
The individual entries are in a single column but are in a combined format
(e.g. 130/82). I need to parse each of the two numbers and arrive at an
average of all entries in the column. I have searched help because I thought
I had seen some reference to the selecting only a portion of a number on a
prior search. Unfortunately, I could not come across it again. Thanks for
any help