Le dimanche 14 mai 2006 à 03:36 -0700, Michael Johnson a écrit :
> Hello, I'm a new Gnumeric user and am having trouble with functions.
> 
> I would like to get an average of an entire column into a seperate
> cell. The problem is that over the next few months (or years) this
> column will be regularly updated. So I was thinking I could use a
> function to count the entire number of cells in this column and then
> using that number specify the location of the last cell.
> 
> I could then inform Gnumeric to start at a particular cell and then go
> from that cell to the final specified cell and use the data to get an
> average of the entire column.
> 
> Is there any function that will have Gnumeric look at a column and
> return the number of cells in the range? And could I then use that
> number to dynamically specify the final column to use in the average?

You can count cells containing numbers with:
=cell(A:A)
(this is for the A column).
But you do not need that to calculate the average:
=average(A:A)
calculates the everage of all cells in the A column which contain
numbers.

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