Microsoft Excel can do a lot of cool things. If you need it to generate random numbers, Susan Harkins can show you how.

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 uses the function RAND () to return a random and uniformly distributed number between 0 and 1, every time the worksheet is calculated. If you are analyzing how fluctuations in sales will ...