good call. i didn't think that out far enough. i assumed that the first cell
in the range would be the first to have data.
thanks for a better insight.
regards
FSt1

"T. Valko" wrote:

Try something like this...

The formula won't calculate an average until at least 1 number is entered in
the range.


=IF(COUNT(A1:A10),AVERAGE(A1:A10),"")


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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Vince" wrote:

How do I average a range of cells that are blank until data is entered later
with out the destination cell returning a #div/o! error