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Random selection of participants and Permutations with Excel
There are no doubt multiple ways this can be accomplished. See the attached workbook for one technique. The workbook requires Excel version 2021 or later (because it uses the LET function and the SEQUENCE function).
Row 2 of the RandomSubset worksheet summarizes the diversity. (I included two custom number formats to generate the words that are displayed with the counts.) Copy the last row of this sheet down to add places, or delete it to remove places.
Edit: Corrected the random selection formula, as I had added 1 (to skip past the Candidates column headers), but in the wrong place. The original formula would sometimes generate #REF errors.
- SnowMan55Nov 25, 2023Bronze Contributor
Karpay750 Eh, not so amazing. I later noticed that my late-night coding was incorrect in deriving the counts of unique entries. And then I found a problem in the random selection. So see the newer attached workbook. This version also includes more information on the _Info worksheet.