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Default Average Over Multiple Sheet Tabs with Multiple Values

Thanks again for your help. I have to average values that will always be in
column F and average more values separately that will always be in column G.
The rows could range from row 4 to row 27. In column G, I want to average all
the values that are equal to or greater than 3.0. I have some conditional
formatting set up with the criteria of <3.0 that fills the cells with yellow
when it meets that criteria. So, all Im doing is choosing the cells that are
not yellow. Does this help? Sorry for the confusion.
Thanks again, Karen


"Bernie Deitrick" wrote:

Karen,

How do you know what values to select? Is there a pattern, are there labels,
formulas in certain cells? Always Column G? At the top, at the bottom, ???

Bernie


"Karen" wrote in message
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Thank you for your help Bernie. Actually, I'm aware of the little trick of
creating the "Start" and "Finish" tab, but only if all the cells are the
same
on each sheet. I'm not sure how to do it when each sheet tab is different.

For example: The sheets are titled for each day of the week (1, 2, 3,
etc.)
Then on sheet 1, the values I want to average are in cell G4, G20 & G21.
Then
on sheet 2, the values are on cell G5, G6 & G20. Across all 31 sheets,
there
are about 70 values I need to average. Would you be so kind as to let me
know
how to do this.
Thank you very much for your time and your help, Karen

"Bernie Deitrick" wrote:

Karen,

If all the cells are the same on each sheet, you could use a 3D range
reference. For example

=AVERAGE('First Sheet:Last Sheet'!B7)

Otherwise, if they are different cells, then select a cell that is free
on every sheet, and use that
cell to link to the cell on the sheet that you need, like

=B7

Then use the above formula to average that cell.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"Karen" wrote in message
...
Is there a limit to how many values you can average in a cell? Because
I
don't understand what is happening. I'm trying to average about 70
different
values in 31 sheet tabs. What I do is click in the cell I want to place
the
average. Then I choose the AVG function. I then click on each sheet tab
and
choose the cell with the value I want to include in the average. I
place a
comma between each value and then click the next one and so on. I keep
getting the infamous message that there is an error in my formula. Then
I
chose a lot less values to average, using my same method, and it works
fine.
HELP! This is driving me crazy. I don't want to calculate all these
manually.
ANY help would be greatly appreciated, Karen