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Default How can I sort a column of numbers generated by excel RAND funct?

Create a helper column

=SMALL($A$1:$A$100,ROW())

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"Erick K" wrote:

After generating a column of numbers using the random number generator in
Excel, I tried to sort the column low to high. The sort appears to be
random and additional sorting only yields a random column of numbers. How do
I fix the numbers for normal sort?