It's not real clear what you're wanting to do.

Do columns B, C, D and E represent months?

See if this does what you want...

Data in the range A2:M4

A10 = Cats

=AVERAGE(INDEX(B2:M4,MATCH(A10,A2:A4,0),0))

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"brad1824" wrote in message
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I'm looking for a formula to lookup criteria in column A and average the
results in columns B, C, D, E, etc.

For example I would like to know the average of how many "CATS" have been
sold
in a given year and I will be adding addtional months as time progresses
and
do not want to have to adjust my range or formula each time a new months
worth of data is added. For example.

column A column B column C column D column E

DOGS 100 200 150 50
CATS 200 300 100 0
FISH 50 100 200 100

Any help is truly appreciated.

Thanks,

Brad