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ALex60 Sampling 09-04-2008, 12:29 PM
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    Pick a blank 1000-row range. In one column, enter =RAND(). In the next, enter sequential numbers 1-1000. Sort the two-column range by the random numbers. The top 500 rows of the (formerly) sequential numbers are 500 random records.
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    didnt quite get it. could you explain more clearly?
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    Is that a better title than the one I asked you to change here?:

    http://www.excelforum.com/excel-gene...-sampling.html
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