Formula help.

Dan Wilson

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Office Version
  1. 365
Platform
  1. Windows
Good day. I am running Excel out of Office365 (updated) and Windows 10 Home (Updated). I have a workbook that tracks all of the songs in my music library. One of the worksheets is used to generate 40 random numbers between 1 and 3000. The worksheet titled "50-69" contains several Columns dedicated to the identification of each song in the library. Column A contains the song title. Row 1 contains the Column headers and is set as the "Freeze Top Row" for the worksheet. Thus, Rows 2 through 3000 identify each song. There is a separate worksheet titled "Sheet 1" that creates the random numbers in 40 separate cells as show below.

1​
2​
3​
4​
5​
6​
7​
8​
9​
10​
2611​
268​
2587​
2023​
348​
1505​
127​
1795​
2926​
1433​
11​
12​
13​
14​
15​
16​
17​
18​
19​
20​
1362​
604​
2034​
2901​
2268​
2979​
552​
550​
1454​
331​
21​
22​
23​
24​
25​
26​
27​
28​
29​
30​
187​
772​
201​
2438​
2786​
1961​
1392​
2883​
2117​
2050​
30​
32​
33​
34​
35​
36​
37​
38​
39​
40​
2443​
708​
1122​
691​
2976​
580​
2884​
2949​
1877​
2083​

In the example above, the numbers 1 thru 40 identify the order of the songs to be played. the numbers directly below them are the Row numbers of the worksheet "50-69" containing the 3000 songs. Thus, the first song to be played would be in Row 2611 with the song title in Column A. To make the whole process easier, I would like to create another set of numbers 1 thru 40 in a descending Column on the same worksheet with the order of 1 thru 40 in Column A and then fill column B with the actual song title from worksheet "50-69" as identified by the random number. I don't know how to search for a Row number in a formula and that is my problem. Any help will be appreciated.
Thank you,
Dan Wilson...
 

Excel Facts

VLOOKUP to Left?
Use =VLOOKUP(A2,CHOOSE({1,2},$Z$1:$Z$99,$Y$1:$Y$99),2,False) to lookup Y values to left of Z values.

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