Create column of (near) duplicates from column of solitary values

I have written a test and would like to randomly sort the test questions and answers.

The questions and answers each have a separate row of a table in MS Word.

1. I made a column of RAND() dragging down to complete 100 rows.
2. I copied the values as values to a new column and deleted the original RAND() column
3. The random values are now in column A. In column B, I entered:

B1: = A1
B2: =IF(MOD(ROW(),2)=0,B1,A1)

4. I dragged this to 200 rows.

5. This gave me duplicate values of the random numbers like this:

0.425437397
0.425437397
0.917191665
0.917191665
0.846796832
0.846796832

6. Is there a way to tweak this slightly so the second duplicate in each pair is a hair larger than the first number? For example, 0.00001 larger?

The reason is when I sort, I want the answer to the question to always sort after the question item itself.

Change the formula in B2 to this:

=IF(MOD(ROW(),2)=0,B1+0.00001,A1)

then copy down.

Hope this helps.

Pete

Thank you for your help. This worked beautifully!

Glad to be able to help.

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Pete