At 16:54 05/07/2014 -0400, Pikov Andropov wrote:
Brian Barker has written on 7/4/2014 8:11 PM:
What you are doing is really just shuffling your six names.
Well, actually, it's not. :-) I want to create a list of pairs from
a subset of the names in column A.
It is: the list of pairs is simply a shuffling of the original set
presented as a half-length sequence of pairs instead of a single
list. It would help you see what need to be done if you can recognise that.
In column C, enter =RAND() and fill it down the relevant part of the column.
I get a bunch of numbers < 1.
Well done: that's the idea.
Go to Data | Sort... and sort by column C.
That sorts the names in B. But that doesn't give me pairs.
Again, that is the main part of the process: you have shuffled the
values, but they are in vertical pairs, not yet horizontal ones.
If you actually need the values in pairs as you have described, you
can use something like
=INDIRECT("B"&ROW()*2-1)&", "&INDIRECT("B"&ROW()*2)
in another column.
In addition to what I already have in B and C?
Er, yes. You keep insisting you want the horizontal pairs - and this
part just rearranges your shuffled list into the pairs you want. That's all.
Brian Barker
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