Average of an If Formula

Lauren E

Hello!

Can anyone provide some insight on why I am unable to get an average on a column of IF formulas?

Here is the formula across the rows in the column: =IF(Status2 = "Not Started", "0%", IF(Status2 = "In Progress", "50%", IF(Status2 = "Completed", "100%")))

I am getting a #DIVIDE BY ZERO error when I use the AVG formula on 10 rows.

When I try to sum the rows and divide by 10, I get 0.000 as the result.

Thank you!

Samuel Mueller

@Lauren E oh yeah that makes sense! You can also do it without value and without quotes:

=IF(Status2 = "Not Started", 0, IF(Status2 = "In Progress", 0.5, IF(Status2 = "Completed", 1)))

Samuel Mueller

@Lauren E can you provide a screenshot?

Lauren E

Thank you but I actually was able to just figure it out! For anyone else who might come along searching later in a similar situation: I had to remove the % and convert to a value on each of the result values to get it to work.

Samuel Mueller

@Lauren E oh yeah that makes sense! You can also do it without value and without quotes:

=IF(Status2 = "Not Started", 0, IF(Status2 = "In Progress", 0.5, IF(Status2 = "Completed", 1)))

Lauren E

That is good to know! Thank you so much!