Of course, we won't rely on such 'exotic' techniques in this tutorial and focus on what Excel random number generator has to offer. And because it has always been in demand, various methods of creating random numbers have existed since ancient times, such as flipping coins, rolling dice, shuffling playing cards, and so on.

Randomness has a variety of different applications in cryptography, statistics, lottery, gambling, and many other fields. In plain English, random data is a series of numbers, letters or other symbols that lacks any pattern. The tutorial explains the specificities of the Excel random number generator algorithm and demonstrates how to use RAND and RANDBETWEEN functions to generate random numbers, dates, passwords and other text strings in Excel.īefore we delve into different techniques of generating random numbers in Excel, let's define what they actually are.