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Lacoran - 13 Dec 2007 17:10 GMT

I am using the rand() function in Visual basic to find a specific number on a
list and bring up the value from 2 cells over. I have got all that but the
list does not contain all number from 1 to 100. for example there is no 23
so when rand comes up with 23 the macro gets an error. is there a way in VB
that if it get that error it goes to the next integer 1 higher and
conditiunes that until it gets a number that works

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JLGWhiz - 13 Dec 2007 17:21 GMT

You could use On Error GoTo Restart:

example:

Sub Rand#()
Restart:
'your regular code
On Error GoTo Restart:
'execute Rand()
On Error GoTo 0
End Sub

> I am using the rand() function in Visual basic to find a specific number on a
> list and bring up the value from 2 cells over. I have got all that but the
> list does not contain all number from 1 to 100. for example there is no 23
> so when rand comes up with 23 the macro gets an error. is there a way in VB
> that if it get that error it goes to the next integer 1 higher and
> conditiunes that until it gets a number that works

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Jerry W. Lewis - 13 Dec 2007 17:30 GMT

If you assign a random number to each of the used ID numbers, and sort both
by the random numbers, then you will have a random ordering of the avilable
numbers.

Jerry

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