Excel Average Function Formula with Example

What Does It Do ?

This function calculates the average from a list of numbers.

If the cell is blank or contains text, the cell will not be used in the average calculation.

If the cell contains zero 0, the cell will be included in the average calculation.

Syntax

=AVERAGE(Range1,Range2,Range3... through to Range30)

Formatting

No special formatting is needed.
Note
To calculate the average of cells which contain text or blanks use =SUM() to get the total and then divide by the count of the entries using =COUNTA().