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Greetings Experts:
I now have another function to perform and don't know how or if it is possible.... I have 250 records, but I need to randomly select 110 of them...this will occur each month, trying to not get the same records to be audited...is this even possible? Thank you for your help, -- jeannie v |
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In a helper column adjacent to your records you could put the formula:
=RAND() and copy this down the column to cover your 250 records. Then you can sort all the data including this helper column, using the helper column as the key (the values might change, but that doesn't matter). Then choose the first 110 records. Hope this helps. Pete On Dec 13, 7:48 pm, jeannie v wrote: Greetings Experts: I now have another function to perform and don't know how or if it is possible.... I have 250 records, but I need to randomly select 110 of them...this will occur each month, trying to not get the same records to be audited...is this even possible? Thank you for your help, -- jeannie v |
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Pete: Many thanks for your expertise....It works exactly as I wanted it to.
-- jeannie v "Pete_UK" wrote: In a helper column adjacent to your records you could put the formula: =RAND() and copy this down the column to cover your 250 records. Then you can sort all the data including this helper column, using the helper column as the key (the values might change, but that doesn't matter). Then choose the first 110 records. Hope this helps. Pete On Dec 13, 7:48 pm, jeannie v wrote: Greetings Experts: I now have another function to perform and don't know how or if it is possible.... I have 250 records, but I need to randomly select 110 of them...this will occur each month, trying to not get the same records to be audited...is this even possible? Thank you for your help, -- jeannie v |
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Thanks for feeding back, Jeannie - glad to be of help.
Pete On Dec 14, 12:01 am, jeannie v wrote: Pete: Many thanks for your expertise....It works exactly as I wanted it to. -- jeannie v "Pete_UK" wrote: In a helper column adjacent to your records you could put the formula: =RAND() and copy this down the column to cover your 250 records. Then you can sort all the data including this helper column, using the helper column as the key (the values might change, but that doesn't matter). Then choose the first 110 records. Hope this helps. Pete On Dec 13, 7:48 pm, jeannie v wrote: Greetings Experts: I now have another function to perform and don't know how or if it is possible.... I have 250 records, but I need to randomly select 110 of them...this will occur each month, trying to not get the same records to be audited...is this even possible? Thank you for your help, -- jeannie v- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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