Did you ever struggle with Excel on how to generate Random numbers in Excel, or how to generate random dates in Excel? well, you have a treat here. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to make use of the randomBetween function to produce Random numbers. You will also see the usage of a date function to produce dates using three separate values and combine them.

You will also see a demonstration on how to use a randomBetween function to produce random dates between two specified dates.

Date function was designed to take up three values and combine them to form a date, you will be learning that in this video. You will also see a demonstration on how to use the date function and randomBetween function in a nested layout to produce random dates.

Applies to

Excel 2007, Excel 2010, Excel 2013, Excel 2016, Office 365 and above

In this video, you will also see a brief demonstration of how to make an absolute reference in Excel. Since this video is using the nested layout of functions, it is highly recommended for you to watch a nested functions demonstration before you watch this video. You should be able to find the video at this link: http://bit.ly/2yuJtJH

By the end of this video, you should be able to perform quick actions to generate Random numbers, random dates and also produce date based on separate values.

Click on the following button to download the file used in the demo to practice along with us.

In case you get stuck, write your questions below in the comments section and I will be happy to help you.

Excel Learning Series – TOC

1. Excel 2016 – Basics – Find Sum, Average, Min and Max
2. Excel 2016 Difference Between Formulas and Functions
3. Excel 2016 Copy Formulas or Functions
4. Microsoft Excel Auto Fill
5. Excel 2016 Manage Views using Freeze Panes
6. Microsoft Excel – Saving Workbooks
7. Excel Upper and Lower Text Functions
8. Excel 2016 – Text Function – Proper
9. Excel Text Functions – Trim Function
10. Excel – Text Function Left Function
11. Excel Text Function – Right Function
12. Excel Text Functions – MID Function
13. Excel Concatenate Text Function
14. Excel Nested Functions
15. Excel Search Function
16. Excel – Calculate Age using Date Function Today
17. Calculate Tenure in Excel with Days Function
18. Autofill Dates in Excel
19. Formatting Dates in Excel
20. Excel Date Format Shortcut
21. Calculating Sum of Time in Excel
22. Calculate Expiry Date in Excel 2016 – EDATE
23. Find Age or Tenure using DATEDIF in Excel 2016
24. RandBetween – Generate Random Dates in Excel 2016
25. Excel Weekday Function
26. Excel WeekNum and ISOWeekNum Functions
27. Excel Networkdays and Excel Networkdays.INTL
28. Excel Workday and Workdays INTL Functions
29. Excel DATEVALUE AND TIMEVALUE
30. Calculate Time Difference in Excel
31. Calculate Quarter in Excel
32. Rounding Day, Hour and Minutes in Excel
33. Excel Pay Rate and Downtime Cost Calculation
34. Excel Logical Functions IF, AND, OR
35. Calculate Bonus in Excel Using IF Function
36. Excel Learning – SumIF and SumIFS
37. How to use Excel Count Functions
38. How to use VLOOKUP in Excel
39. How to vLookup in a different workbook in Excel
40. VLookup for Multiple Sheets with Example
41. Excel Custom Quarters

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