Say your data is in A1 thru A2000

1. in B1 thru B2000 enter:
=RAND()
2. sort columns A & B by column B
3. pick the first 400 items in column A
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"Critzy" wrote:

I need a way to randomly select 400 records from a worksheet containing
around 2000. Is there a formula or function that will do this?