One way ..
Assume you have a list of 50 numbers (or whatever items) in A1:A50
Put in C1: =RAND(), copy C1 down to C50
Put in B1: =INDEX(A:A,RANK(C1,$C$1:$C$50))
Copy B1 down to B40, to return 40 non repeating random selections
of the list in A1:A50. If you want the full 50 randomized, copy B1 down to
B50. Press F9 to re-generate
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"Cris" wrote in message
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I have a list of numbers that I need Excel to randomly pick 40 of. I can't
use the RAND function because these numbers don't increment by one all the
time. Any ideas how Excel can give me this list?

Thanks!