Thread: How to make a cell show average of the last 5 entries in a column?
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Default How to make a cell show average of the last 5 entries in a column?
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Assuming continuous numeric data running in A1 down
In B1: =AVERAGE(OFFSET(INDIRECT("A"&COUNT(A:A)),,,-5))
will return the average of the last* 5 numbers in col A
*bottommost
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"Hal" wrote:
I need to make a fixed cell display the average of the last 5 entires in a
column that will periodically have another entry added to it and may at some
point contain 50 or so entries.
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