RANDOMNESS IS A valuable commodity. Computer models of complex systems ranging from the weather to the stockmarket are voracious consumers of random numbers. Cryptography, too, relies heavily on ...

Use the RANDARRAY() dynamic array function to return random names or other text in Microsoft Excel. The recent article How to generate random letters in Excel shows you how to generate random letters.

It’s easy to return random values in Microsoft Excel, but returning random letters might leave you scratching your head. Fortunately, you only need two functions. Excel provides three functions for ...