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What formula do I use to average a column of numbers that contain one cell
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The AVERAGE function will ignore text (in an array).

How do you want to handle that one cell with text?

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=average(c:c) should ignore text. I get 4 from this sample
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=AVERAGE(A1:A100)
The +AVERAGE() function ignores text values.
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