I have a group of 19 numbers representing different groups of employees, I need to randomize those 19 numbers into days of the week for training mon-saturday for 10 weeks.
so I have like 19,21,33,4,7,18,20,34 .... randomized into 21,33,4,20,7,18 <--week 1
34,4,7,20,21,19 <-- week 2 ect...
can this be done?
Last edited by komet12; 03-08-2012 at 07:53 AM.
Do you want to use your random numbers or any random numbers? Also please post a sample workbook.
Ok I have made some progress please view the sheet using =INDEX($a$2:$a$20,RANDBETWEEN(1,19))
So you can't have duplicates per day or per week?
per any given 6 day period
Take a look at this workbook. You randomize using the RAND() function and sorting. Then transpose your first 6 values.
Is this what you were looking for?
ChemistB
My 2?
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Actually the 19 numbers are actually set, as in the test schedule sheet in column A then those need to be set randomly thru each week without duplication. I solved the matter of getting the random 6 per week using the index formula but having an issue with duplicates in the week.
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on the attached workbook I copied the random numbers to sheet 2 in a numeric format. Is there a way that I can find the duplicates in each row and highlight them so I could manually fix the duplication?
You can use conditional formatting.
Select your range> Conditional Formattting> Use Formula
=COUNTIF($A2:$F2,A2)>1
Format as you like
Does that work for you?
FYI, my technique (post 6) would have not given you duplicates. I guess I wasn't clear about how it worked. I guess it was a little time consuming also.
Last edited by ChemistB; 03-07-2012 at 12:03 PM.
That worked , then I sorted by cell color to get 105 unique schedules Thanks
Coming a bit late to the party, I realize, but this type of question comes up every now and then. Here is some code to shuffle a range into a new array. This at least resolves the removal of duplicates within each shuffle (unless there are duplicates in the original range), but it does not ensure each set of shuffles is unique.
Good luck,
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