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In the table above, I wanna know who I should call to hang out with on Friday night. I want the computer to pick a random dude from the spreadsheet. The formula below shows how we are going to do this.
=INDEX(list of dudes, RANDBETWEEN(1, ROWS(list of dudes)),1)
The RANDBETWEEN() picks a number between 1 and the number of rows in the sheet.
The index() tasks that number and finds the row and returns the data in the first column (that’s what the 1 is doing at the very end.
Let’s get the values for the data range in there:
=INDEX($A$1:$A$8,RANDBETWEEN(1,ROWS($A$1:$A$8)),1
You could replace the $A$1:$A$8 with a named range if working in excel (I’m not)
And the answer (tonight) is Francisco.