Have you tried it?

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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"Bob Smith" wrote in message
ink.net...
This should be a simple fix, but I'm not having any luck right now
figuring it out.

Need some help to exclude cells within a range of cells. Am doing an
average of 50 cells, =AVERAGE(A4:A53). Some of these cells include an
asterisk and should not be included in the final average.

TIA,

Bob