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If your selection of cells should determine how many cells you randomly want to pick, take this function, please.
Please notice that you also need my UDF VBUniqRandInt (it is called by this function).
Function Random_Pick(ParamArray vrng() _
As Variant) As Variant
'Returns n random cell contents of multi-range input
'[paramarray can be A1:C3, D7:IV88, for example] if n
'cells in a worksheet have been selected and the function
'has been entered as array formula (CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER).
'Reverse("moc.liborplus.www") V0.1 PB 19-Sep-2010
Dim vR As Variant, vi As Variant
Dim i As Long, j As Long
Dim lrow As Long, lcol As Long
Dim lpari As Long, lRange As Long
If TypeName(Application.Caller) <> "Range" Then
Random_Pick = CVErr(xlErrRef)
Exit Function
End If
ReDim vR(1 To Application.Caller.Rows.Count, _
1 To Application.Caller.Columns.Count)
ReDim lparidx(LBound(vrng) To UBound(vrng)) As Long
'Store range counts and sum them up
lRange = 0
For i = LBound(vrng) To UBound(vrng)
lRange = lRange + vrng(i).Count
lparidx(i) = vrng(i).Count
Next i
If Application.Caller.Count > lRange Then
Random_Pick = CVErr(xlErrValue)
Exit Function
End If
lrow = 1
lcol = 1
For Each vi In VBUniqRandInt( _
Application.Caller.Count, lRange)
j = vi
lpari = LBound(lparidx)
Do While j > lparidx(lpari)
j = j - lparidx(lpari)
lpari = lpari + 1
Loop
vR(lrow, lcol) = vrng(lpari)(j)
lcol = lcol + 1
If lcol > UBound(vR, 2) Then
lrow = lrow + 1
lcol = 1
End If
Next vi
Random_Pick = vR
End Function
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