https://eric.nz/tags/excel/ Recent content in excel on Eric's Note https://eric.nz/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E https://eric.nz/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E Hugo -- gohugo.io Wed, 16 Nov 2022 22:16:25 +0000 https://eric.nz/posts/excel-create-random-pair/ Wed, 16 Nov 2022 22:16:25 +0000 https://eric.nz/posts/excel-create-random-pair/ This week I got a task to randomly generate pairs based on a name list. After googling on the internet, I found a perfect solution to achieve my goal. Here are the detailed steps to achieve a random pair of two, and it’s easy to adjust to your specific needs. All the example data and formula can be found in this Google Sheet: Random Pairs . Steps Step 1 - Generate random numbers using RAND() Firstly, we need to generate a random number against each name, we can use the RAND() function to achieve that.