You may find yourself faced with a need to generate random character strings for various reasons. Recently I needed to help a company set up email accounts for all of their employees on a new server. I was given the email address usernames but needed to create the passwords for each account. I didn't want to be lazy and assign everyone the same password, or even an easily … [Read more...]
Random Numbers in Excel
Sometimes it is useful to be able to generate random numbers in Excel that are limited to a certain range. Maybe you have an "employee of the month" contest and you just can't pick one. Assign a number to each employee, enter the first and last numbers and run the macro. And who said decision making was difficult! Or, on the serious side you could be doing some testing … [Read more...]