picking random sample in excel column

[Guest]

I have a list of 1500 people and I want to get a random sample of 300 people out of the 1500.
Does excel have a formula to do this? The field I want to use to pick the random ID contains user ids that contain numbers and letters. Thanks for any assistance.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

one way:

In a second column, enter

=RAND()

in the first cell and copy down.

Select both columns and choose Data/Sort, sorting on the column with the
RANDs. Take the first 300 userIDs.