Excel Magic Trick #19: Randomly Generate Words

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See how to use the CHOOSE and RANDBETWEEN functions to randomly generate words. See how to randomly select a Region from all your sales regions.

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  • @ExcelIsFun Hi, thanks a lot for you videos. They have been of great use to me. Amazing stuff.

    Could you tell me the shortcut key for zooming , i saw you doing so at 1:05

    Many Thanks

  • @LadyDboz , Ctrl and then roll wheel on Mouse.

  • Hey I really like your videos. Must say it's a nice and noble thing your doing :D

    I have one question about his video. I've got a similar problem - Let's say I have about 800 names in column A (from A1 to A800, naturally). Now I need one of these names to be randomly selected. How do I do that quickly?

    there is one way: =CHOOSE(RANDBETWEEN(1;800);A1;­A2;A3;A4;etc.,;a800), but it would take me a whole day to do it that way.

  • Try:

    =INDEX($A$1:$A$800,INT(RAND()*­800+1))

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  • @ExcelIsFun Cheers!

  • This was a very big help to me for my Management 600 class!

  • Thank you very very much, it really works. Although I still don't understand how the last part functions, I'm sure I'll find it as I go through your videos. Thanks

  • Dear xxsweetGxx,

    Cool!!! That would be great! We could make cartoons about how to use Excel. I would love to do the voice for that! We could also have Excel Superheroes that come in and save the day!!

    --ExcelIsFun

  • Well that's not very nice of them because I like your voice its so much more exciting than other people who have tutorials like this and have half dead/boring voices atleast your enthusiastic the whole time :) Plus I think your voice would be great in a cartoon !

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