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Default I want to sort data randomly in addition to the current descendin.

That's basically it. I have existing worksheets of data that I would like to
sort in random order. There are roundabout ways to do this with formulas,
but this can be tricky, and does not work in all situations.
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Can you really call putting data in a random order Sorting?

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"ckephart" wrote:

That's basically it. I have existing worksheets of data that I would like to
sort in random order. There are roundabout ways to do this with formulas,
but this can be tricky, and does not work in all situations.

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Hi
the solution I know would invole a helper column with the formula
=RAND()
for all rows and sorting with this helper column. This should work

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That's basically it. I have existing worksheets of data that I would

like to
sort in random order. There are roundabout ways to do this with

formulas,
but this can be tricky, and does not work in all situations.


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