Using the example above, you can get the average value from the field “Price” for records where the color is “red” and quantity is > 2 with these formulas:

Criteria options

The criteria can include a variety of expressions, including some wildcards. The table below shows some examples: Note: support for wildcards is a little different wildcards with COUNTIFS, SUMIFS, MATCH etc. For example, the pattern ??? will match strings with 3 exactly characters in these more recent functions, but not in database functions. If you are using wildcards, test carefully.

Multi-row criteria

The criteria range for DAVERAGE can include more than one row below the headers. When criteria includes more than one row, each row is joined with OR logic, and the expressions in a given criteria row are joined with AND logic. Notes:

DAVERAGE supports wildcards in criteria Criteria can include more than one row (as explained above) The field argument can be supplied as a name in double quotes ("") or as a number representing field index. The database and criteria ranges must include matching headers.

Dave Bruns

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