Generating Random Numbers in Excel Random numbers can be generated to randomly select a winner from a list of names in a spreadsheet, choose respondents to participate in a survey from a large ...

However, Excel's random number functions are volatile, meaning they change constantly. In this article, I'll show you how to generate and fix random numbers and remove duplicates.

With the list randomized, you are free to select any number of consecutive entries, starting from the first entry, to create your random sample.