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Asked: 2026-06-10T01:45:03+00:00

This is probably a really easy question to answer but it’s been bugging me

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This is probably a really easy question to answer but it’s been bugging me for ages now! Say I have a range of values in a column sorted like:

Sales:
1500
160
40
300
200

Within this range, I know that the average is 440.
What I would like is for Excel to find the most average value within this range (the closest value to 440 in that range is hence 300). So what can I do for Excel to return 300 as the closest value to the average value within that range?

Thanks so much!

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    Assuming that the the values are from Cell A2 to A6, use this array formula

    =INDEX(A2:A6,MATCH(MIN(ABS(A2:A6-AVERAGE(A2:A6))),ABS(A2:A6-AVERAGE(A2:A6)),0))

    You have to press CTL + SHIFT + ENTER after you enter the formula.

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    I forgot to mention that I need to omit non-zero values from ‘sales’ so that any values that are 0 are not counted. Could you show me how this would be done? – alexcu 4 mins ago

    Simply use SUM and COUNTIF instead of AVERAGE in this case

    Use this formula

    =INDEX(A2:A7,MATCH(MIN(ABS(A2:A7-(SUM(A2:A7)/COUNTIF(A2:A7,"<>0") ))),ABS(A2:A7-(SUM(A2:A7)/COUNTIF(A2:A7,"<>0") )),0))

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