You'll need to first create a helper column. Assuming you have a lookup
table setup somewhere to convert the text to numbers, can do:
=IF(ISNUMBER(A2),A2,LOOKUP(A2,Your_Table))

Then average the helper column.

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Luke M
"Frogs5" wrote in message
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I have a mix of grades (academic achievement) in numeric (98, 86, etc.) and
text
(A, B+, etc.) format that I need to average for a final grade. While I can
use LOOKUP variants to display the text as numeric, I have yet to figure
out
how to manipulate the text so it can be AVERAGEd with the numeric data. I
am
not totally new to Excel; however, I figured there are smarter folks in
the
community that may have already wrestled this issue into a solution.
Congratulations! Please share your results...thank you!