Wednesday 11 July 2018

Microsoft Excel - Generating test data

We had a requirement to generate some test data within a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

similar to this: -


This was the magic invocation: -

="Subscriber Reference #"&ROW()

We merely needed to copy that to the clipboard, and paste it into a nice chunk 'o cells ….

So it's a piece of text concatenated with the row() index, using the ampersand ( & ) symbol.


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