I'm not sure I understand you correctly, but if C2 and D2 contain
VLOOKUP formulas and return the text A2 and A6, respectively, you could
use the following formula...

=AVERAGE(INDIRECT(C2&":"&D2))

Hope this helps!

In article om,
wrote:

I'm trying to use a text string as the range in the AVERAGE function.
The AVERAGE function doesn't seem to like this.

For example:

=AVERAGE("A2" & ":" & "A6")

(my real sheet uses VLOOKUP to derive the "A2" and "A6" references, but
if you can get this simple text range to work, I can expand from there)

I found one way that uses INDIRECT and ADDRESS, but this seems
cumbersome.

= AVERAGE(INDIRECT(ADDRESS(2,1) & ":" & ADDRESS(6,1)))

Anyone have a simpler way to use text as the range input for the
AVERAGE function?

Thanks!