Hi,

Say your data are in colimn A put this in b1 and double click the fill
handle to make it fill down:-

=Rand()

Now select Columns A & B and sort on column B. The top 20 elements in column
A are randomely selected from the list. Tap F9 and re-sort for another 20.

Mike

"Funkyfido" wrote:

I have a list of data in excel. Is there anyway that excel can pick a randam
sample of say 20 entries?