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Could you share a little bit more information about what you're trying
to accomplish? Simply selecting rows (multiple rows at once, or one at a
time?) doesn't do much.
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I have a list of 13,000 contacts that I need to cut down to 10,000 - I need
to randomly delete 3,000 of them....

"JE McGimpsey" wrote:

Could you share a little bit more information about what you're trying
to accomplish? Simply selecting rows (multiple rows at once, or one at a
time?) doesn't do much.

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One way:

In an empty column, enter

=RAND()

and copy down 13000 rows. Choose Data/Sort and sort on that column.
Delete rows 10001 and higher.

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I have a list of 13,000 contacts that I need to cut down to 10,000 - I need
to randomly delete 3,000 of them....

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Awesome!! Thank you SO much!

"JE McGimpsey" wrote:

One way:

In an empty column, enter

=RAND()

and copy down 13000 rows. Choose Data/Sort and sort on that column.
Delete rows 10001 and higher.

In article ,
"Samantha" wrote:

I have a list of 13,000 contacts that I need to cut down to 10,000 - I need
to randomly delete 3,000 of them....


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