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Appologize in advance if this question has been asked... but I want to use
Microsoft Excel to take a list of 25 names and create some random teams. See
we have a B-Day party on Saturday and we are playing in a game that has two
teams on a court at a given time with 5 players per team. We want to have a
way to random generate the 5 teams.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
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In a column alongside your names, put a random number =RAND().
Select both columns and sort by the second column. 1st 5 in one team, next
5 in 2nd team, etc.
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Appologize in advance if this question has been asked... but I want to use
Microsoft Excel to take a list of 25 names and create some random teams.
See
we have a B-Day party on Saturday and we are playing in a game that has
two
teams on a court at a given time with 5 players per team. We want to have
a
way to random generate the 5 teams.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.



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