Hi All,
Issue: I have a formula herein which includes the RANDBETWEEN function. However, I have just noticed that it is volatile function.Formula:
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Trying to do: Would it be possible to include in the above formula somehow where a static random number is generated?
Thanks in advance for any help given and let me know if further information is needed
Hi Steve,
Do you mean by that once you get the result only RANDBETWEEN function's value gets converted into static random number?
If this is the case, then as far as my knowledge, You can convert manually by pressing F9 key after selecting the highlighted part but once you hit enter you can't have function (RANDBETWEEN) with that formula.[/COLOR]
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Or You can convert the entire formula by performing CTRL+C-->PASTE SPECIAL-->VALUE
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Thanks,
Anil Dhawan
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Hi
Do you want to show the CONCATENATE when random number is a specific number, i.e 100
Try:
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hey adhawan06 - Thanks for the reply, yes this is one option I have as a last resort, but am hoping to find another way as the formula is part of a dynamic table that is constantly updated and cleared each week, so I am not looking to lose the formulae wehere possible. Although I could just have the paste option in another column (hmmmm...thanks may have to go with this option if no other way to stop the constant updating of the random numbers).
Cheers mate
Hi Bebo - If i understand you correctly, I am not looking to generate a specific random number but any random number within the CONCATENATE output that does not update whenever the workbook recalculates.
Sorry if I may not have been clear, the current formula output result is = Student davids-steve-222088
However, when excel recalculates automatically, it will change the Student davids-steve-222088 to something random again. This is what I am trying to hope get asisstance on, to stop this from happening if at all possible.
Hi Steve,
Yeah there is some limitation in excel too. :P
Once you convert your formula into static value, you can't get it back...And I can understand no one would love to loose formula so better you have options to paste the entire column in some other column and then can go for PASTESPECIAL-VALUE method as this one is left at last.
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adhawan06 - Yep you're right about that but I may just leave this post open for a day and see what comes back, may get another way to do what I am trying to achieve here, nonetheless cheers for the help
Why don't you try something like this
Set cell A1 to a toggle switch (ie you want the formula to update when A1 = YES) then change your formula to this
=if(A1="YES",IF(AND(B3="",C3="",D3=""),"",CONCATENATE("Student ",B3,"-",C3,"-",RANDBETWEEN(0,500000))),z1)
where Z1 is the cell reference you have this formula in. it will recalculate when you want it to (when A1 = Yes) and when you change A1 to anything but YES it will give you a circular reference warning the first time but only the first time but more importantly it won't change your number
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Crooza - Thanks for this. Your suggestion achieves extaly what I have been after.
Appreciate it
P.s - will i get any problems having circular references within a dynamic table? (perhaps I should post this in a new thread)
Any values linked to the circular reference will remain the same (from testing I've done). Any values not linked to the circular reference will recalculateP.s - will i get any problems having circular references within a dynamic table? (perhaps I should post this in a new thread )
Cheers mateOriginally Posted by Crooza
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