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I want to exclude the MAX and MIN values in the range for the AVERAGE function.
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One way:

=TRIMMEAN(A1:A10,2/COUNT(A1:A10))

Note that will exclude *one instance each* of the min and max.

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40
40

The above formula will average 10,20,30,40 = 25

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Do you want something like this:
=(sum(a1:a100)-max(a1:a100)-min(a1:a100))/(count(a1:a100)-2)
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