randomize

Hi PQ Gurus, I have a tall order, which I know I would NEVER be able to figure out myself, and am hoping one of you experts could assist. I know the requirements are pretty extensive, but would appreciate ANY help in trying to figure this out. I have a large data set (small sample below), and...

Hi Power Query Gurus out there! I don't have extensive knowledge of Power Query, but use it for simpler tasks. I'm currently using it to query data from a SharePoint list (not relevant to my question), and I'm looking to have PQ look at the data (sample data below), and randomly select 3 IDs...

Hi, I have the following code which creates an array "Ary" with string elements from a table column that match value "x" from another column in this table. I would like to have cell E6 display a randomly picked string element from this array "Ary". How would I have to alter the VBA code? Sub...

Hi all, I am trying to make a randomizer in Excel to randomize my workouts. I currently have 4 workout lists in Excel: Abs, Arms, Chest, and Legs. The lists are made of strings with no numbers. What I want to do, is to have 3 different buttons, each for a different day (Arm, Chest, and Leg)...

Hi everyone, I have a rather tricky problem to solve. For each row in my table (for each person) - refer to screenshot named "My Table", I would like excel to randomly generate a 9 digit number (in Column N) but based on a certain set of rules. Here is how I currently generate them 1 by 1...

Hi All, I have a macro I'm working on and am having trouble creating a randomizer to find the answer to a solution I'm looking for. Here's the data I need to randomize: Column A contains a Unique ID (1,2,3,4,5 etc) Column B needs to be populated with a number between 1 and 50 but must be...

How do I create a question and answer bank with excel in a way that I can randomly produce tests with corresponding answer sheets? Also, I need to create multiple choice tests. Little about me: real dumb. Basic instruction and guidance is appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Tl dr; I am trying to make a question bank where one of the question is match the following and I want to randomly select them to form an assignment. I am trying to make question bank in excel so that I can hand out a separate assignment sheet to each student. There are different types of...

Following from Rick Rothstein's comment here: https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/747715-rnd-not-truly-random.html he suggests, if I understood him correctly, that you should only ever have the randomize function once. In that case, why not just put it in the Workbook_Open...

Question, I have not used this and I need to set up based on 2 criteria I have a column with names in it and a second column with codes in them. I only want 10% of the total codes for each name Name 1 can have 20 codes so I need to randomize the two codes that get audited. Name 2 50 codes so...

Hi there, I'm trying to randomize the forms we use for study participants for two different sessions without repeats. Specifically, at session #1 , participants are randomized to receive Form A, Form B, or Form C of the same measure. For session #2 , we want to randomize what form version...

I have found code online to generate a random number using VBA (on click of button) How do I get it to display a certain cell (H5) rather than in a msgbx? Sub random_num() 'Initialize the random number generator '=> Randomize : add this before you call the Rnd function to obtain...

I have inherited some VBA code in Excel 2016 - when the code is run, 500 users are input one by one, and a random number assigned to each one. As far as I understand, the code uses Randomize and Rnd (-1) to set the same starting seed each time, so that every time 500 users are input the same...

Hi, I've got the following code to randomize through userforms, however I would like it to loop through on a random time frame from 5 minutes to 15 minutes and show for 5 seconds then close. So just say I click the button to start the macro, it shows a random userform for 5 seconds then...

Can anyone please help me with this. I have a command Button on the sheet which I want to run the code to do the following in cells G20 to G100 I have a list of names. The list can be any length - so there might only be 12 names or 20 names but the list always starts at cell G20 and will...

Hello all so I have a couple questions that relate to the same topic. First I'm trying to create a "test" which pulls information, randomly from a different sheet, populates in the "primary" sheet and then upon completion of the test you can type in the box, anything you want and the scoring...

I need to come up with all the combinations for the below data. I have numbers, colors and names. I need to put one number, two colors and three names in a row without repeating a name or color in each row. I would also like to not replicate the rows with the colors or names in a different...

Hello, Im trying to have a cell populate if conditions are met in 2 others cells (ive been using an If statement). I would like the cell that will populate to pull from a list of names and the results to evenly randomize or just choose from the next name on the list (and start from the...

Hi there: Here goes a newbie's question. I was playing around with rnd function and randomize statement and noticed that seed values may be entered without the parentheses. I was wondering why such behavior is possible since my understanding was that any paramenters (for functions, at...

Hi guys, I've got four columns with numbers and names next to the numbers. It looks something like that: cA cB cC cD 1 Anna 6 Frank 2 John 7 Marva 3 James 8 Alice 4 Craig 9 Keith 5 Paul 10...