URGENT REQUEST!!! PLEASE HELP!!! Random numbering

[Guest]

I am attempting to put a random number generator in the footer of a document.
Is there something I need to do to make this work so that when I print 500
copies it will number each printout with a different number?

If I can get someone who's smarter than I to help out asap, I'd greatly
appreciate it!!!!

 

[Jay Freedman]

I am attempting to put a random number generator in the footer of a
document. Is there something I need to do to make this work so that
when I print 500 copies it will number each printout with a different
number?

If I can get someone who's smarter than I to help out asap, I'd
greatly appreciate it!!!!

You can use the technique shown at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/NumberCopiesOf1Doc.htm. That macro
creates the numbers in sequence. You could use it as is, and just distribute
the copies in random order.

Alternatively, you could change the line

SerialNumber = SerialNumber + 1

to

SerialNumber = Rnd() * NumCopies + 1

to print the numbers in random order. However, this does NOT guarantee that
some numbers in the series won't be generated more than once. That would
take a bit more programming.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

A random number won't necessarily give you a different number on each one,
how about sequential numbering?
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/NumberDocs.htm
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