I am fairly new to Excel and am using 2007. I have a block of words with all
words being in separate cells which are A6 to I16. I need to perform a random
sort to rearrange these cells (words) so that no two words are located in the
same cells after each sort. I have tried using the RAND() function, but that
will only sort rows, so that each row contains the same words.

I need to randomly sort by column then by row. I would think that this would
be a fairly simple task and that others have asked how to do this exact same
thing, but I am not finding any answers.

I would like to do this without using macros as this is for a 1st grade
class and we are blocked from running macros. If you need more clarification,
I would be glad to provide it.

Thanks to all. Your help is greatly appriciated.

you can insert a column in front of the data and insert the =RAND() function
and copy down. This generates randome numbers. Sort by that column. Then you
can do the same thing with a row above the data and sort by that row.

"Mike T" wrote:

I am fairly new to Excel and am using 2007. I have a block of words with all
words being in separate cells which are A6 to I16. I need to perform a random
sort to rearrange these cells (words) so that no two words are located in the
same cells after each sort. I have tried using the RAND() function, but that
will only sort rows, so that each row contains the same words.

I need to randomly sort by column then by row. I would think that this would
be a fairly simple task and that others have asked how to do this exact same
thing, but I am not finding any answers.

I would like to do this without using macros as this is for a 1st grade
class and we are blocked from running macros. If you need more clarification,
I would be glad to provide it.

Thanks to all. Your help is greatly appriciated.

cm,

Is ther a way to sort both a row and a column at the same time or do I have
to do separate sorts?

Thanks,

Mike

"cm" wrote:

you can insert a column in front of the data and insert the =RAND() function
and copy down. This generates randome numbers. Sort by that column. Then you
can do the same thing with a row above the data and sort by that row.

"Mike T" wrote:

I am fairly new to Excel and am using 2007. I have a block of words with all
words being in separate cells which are A6 to I16. I need to perform a random
sort to rearrange these cells (words) so that no two words are located in the
same cells after each sort. I have tried using the RAND() function, but that
will only sort rows, so that each row contains the same words.

I need to randomly sort by column then by row. I would think that this would
be a fairly simple task and that others have asked how to do this exact same
thing, but I am not finding any answers.

I would like to do this without using macros as this is for a 1st grade
class and we are blocked from running macros. If you need more clarification,
I would be glad to provide it.

Thanks to all. Your help is greatly appriciated.