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Default Random Number Selection

In addition to what I said about columns A&B, in C1 enter:
=A1 and copy down thru C20

now when you sort columns A&B, column C will automatically have your 20
random picks.
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Gary''s Student - gsnu200767


"Work.Work.Work" wrote:

Thanks for the quick reply, but what I am looking for is an auto generator.
Where it takes my list of values and randomly select X amount of numbers and
generate a list for me?

"Gary''s Student" wrote:

Put the list in column A and in B1 enter:

=RAND() and copy down

then sort columns A & B by column B. This will shuffle the numbers in
column A.


Just pick the top 20 in column A.
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Gary''s Student - gsnu200767


"Work.Work.Work" wrote:

I need to randomly select 20 numbers from a list of 10k. How would I be able
to do this use the Random Generator?