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We have already seen how to generate a random full name in our example above. Also read: How to Generate Random Letters in Excel? Generate a Random List of Names Using XLOOKUP, RANDARRAY, and the CONCATENATION Operator Note: This is the shortcut key for the Calculate Now feature. The first name and the last name are combined through our TEXTJOIN Function, with a space specified as the delimiter between them.Įvery time, we want to generate a new random full name, we simply press F9 on the keyboard. Our return_array, in this case, is column C. However, this time we want to select a matching last name from column C. Our second XLOOKUP Function follows a similar logic to that of the first one. This first XLOOKUP Function thus returns a random first name from Column B. Since our return_array is column B, the matching corresponding value is found in column B. In other words, we are telling the function to randomly pick a number from column A. Let’s just remind ourselves that our lookup_array in column A. So in our first XLOOKUP Function, we are letting the RANDBETWEEN Function select a random number between 1 and 50 as our lookup value. If -2 is specified, then the search is binary on descending sorted data. If 2 is used, then the search is binary on ascending sorted data. If -1 is specified, then the search is from last to first. If 1, which is the default, is specified, then the function searches from first to last.

search_mode specifies the search mode you’d like to be used.

This is an optional value, and 0 is the default.

2 allows one to perform a wildcard character match. 1 indicates an exact match or next larger.

1 indicates an exact match or next smaller. 0 indicates an exact match, and if no matches are found, #N/A is returned. match_mode specifies the type of match.If this is left empty, then the #N/A error is returned. if_not_found is an optional parameter and allows you to specify a user-friendly text in the case where a match is not found.return_array is the second array of interest which Excel retrieves the matching value from.lookup_array is the first array of interest that we want the function to search through.lookup_value is required and is the value that we want to lookup and find a match for.The syntax of the XLOOKUP Function is: =XLOOKUP(lookup_value, lookup_array, return_array,, ) where: It’s used to search through an array or range and return a matching item in another range or array based on the input value. It is a more advanced version of its earlier predecessors, VLOOKUP/HLOOKUP. The XLOOKUP Function is a new function available to Office 365 users. When honing into our formula, we see our first text string, i.e., the first name, is returned by an XLOOKUP Function. These text strings can be a single value or a range of cells in each case. text1, text 2, … indicates the text strings the function will combine, separated by the delimiter.If this parameter is set to TRUE, the function ignores the empty cells. ignore_empty tells the function whether to ignore the empty text.delimiter denotes a text string, such as a comma or a space that will be used to separate the other text strings.The syntax of the TEXTJOIN Function is as follows: =TEXTJOIN(delimiter, ignore_empty, text1,, …) where: It is only available in later versions of Office. The TEXTJOIN Function is used to combine text strings where one specifies a delimiter. In a nutshell, our formula uses the TEXTJOIN Function to combine our potential two strings of text (first name and last name), which will be returned by the other functions.

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