using AVERAGE on cells that may contain the #N/A error...???

Canadian_Newb

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I have a quick question (and you all here never fail me, so thank-you for that!):
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I’m trying to run an AVERAGE formula on an array of cells that themselves run a VLOOKUP function.
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Now, what is happening is the VLOOKUP array cells have the N/A error in them (until data is input in another sheet). I understand that the AVERAGE function will not work with N/A errors but is there any workaround for this?
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Because when I input data in cells that transfer a number to the VLOOKUP cells, the AVERAGE cell remains N/A…and will not pull an average of the numbers inserted.
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Is there a workaround for this?
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My formulas (for example):
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Cell: C5
=AVERAGE(D5:N5)
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Cell: D5
=VLOOKUP("USERNAME",'SCORE SHEET'!B7:K18,10,FALSE)
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Is there another formula that I can use to accomplish acquiring the average from an array of cells that may contain N/A errors?
 

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