How to average every 5 rows or columns in Excel?

In Excel, have you ever tried to average every 5 rows or columns, that is to say, you need to do these operations: =average (A1:A5), =average(A6:A10), =average(A11:A15),…of course, you can apply the Average function to get the average of every 5 cells every time, but, if there are hundreds and thousands cells in your list, this will be tedious. Today, I will talk about some formulas to solve this job quickly and time-saving.

Average every 5 rows or columns with formulas

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The following formula will help you to calculate the average of every 5 rows in the worksheet, please do as follows:

1. Enter this formula into a blank cell: =AVERAGE(OFFSET($A$2,(ROW()-ROW($C$2))*5,,5,)) (A2 is the start value that you want to average from, and C2 is the cell that you put this formula, the number 5 indicates every 5 rows you want to average), and then press Enter key to get the result, see screenshot:

2. Then select this cell and drag the fill handle down over to the cells until the error value displayed. See screenshot:

Note: If you want to average every 5 columns in a row, you can apply this formula: =AVERAGE(OFFSET($A$1,,(COLUMNS($A$3:A3)-1)*5,,5)) (A1 is the start value that you want to average from, and A3 is the cell where you put this formula, the number 5 indicates every 5 columns you want to average), and then drag the fill handle to right side until the error value appeared, see screenshot:

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Kutools for Excel's Insert Page Breaks Every Row can help you to insert some page breaks for every n rows, and then average every n rows by applying the Paging Subtotals feature.

After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as this:

1. Click Enterprise > Printing > Insert Page Break Every Row, see screenshot:

2. In the Insert Page Break Every Row dialog box, specify the row number which you want to insert page breaks between, and the page breaks are inserted every 5 rows as following screenshot shown:

3. And then click Enterprise > Paging Subtotals, see screenshot:

4. In the Paging Subtotals dialog box, check the column header that you want to do some calculations, and then choose the function Average as you need, see screenshot:

5. And then, the average has been calculated every 5 rows, see screenshot:

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