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I am interested in pulling a random sample of a excel spreadsheep. The
spreadsheet is populated with 132,000 rows.
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In a helper column, put =Rand(), sort the sheet on that column, pick the
desired number of rows as the sample.

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I am interested in pulling a random sample of a excel spreadsheep. The
spreadsheet is populated with 132,000 rows.


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