Page 148 - Enabling National Initiatives to Take Democracy Beyond Elections

With this method: • Give each RSVP a random number between 0 and 1 – using the RAND() function. Try typing =RAND() into Microsoft Excel. Now copy that down for some rows in a column. • Excel will keep regenerating a random number in that cell, which we don’t want to have happen. So just copy your column of numbers and Paste Values to just keep the random numbers, not the formula. • Then sort the entries by the random number (either ascending or descending, as long as they are sorted). 146 A Project of the UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF)